Twitter Hacked – Twitter Followers Reset to Zero
People are shocked to see that their Twitter accounts have been hacked. This recent twitter outage seems to be perpetuated by a Turkish hacker, as reports say. Celebrities with thousands to millions of followers are surprised, if not, outraged to know they now have zero followers.
Justin Bieber: so i woke up here in LA and Twitter has been hacked. Turns out I am no longer popular … hackers i send a warning…u have now pissed off over 2 million teenage girls. They are more dangerous than Navy Seals.
Ashton Kutcher: twitter is being hacked by some turkish hacker. haha I have 0 followers.
Joe Jonas: Wait.. So this means I have to “talk” to my friends?
Kim Kardashian: Someone hacked my twitter account and direct messaged me! They have added over 200 new people! Ughhhhh!”
Twitter acknowledged the Twitter hacked problem and posted this as status:
Follow bug discovered, remedied. 3 hours ago
We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to “force” other users to follow them. We’re now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place. Follower/following numbers are currently at 0; we’re aware and this too should shortly be resolved.
Update (10:18 AM PST): Of note: protected updates did not become public as a result of this bug.