{"id":865,"date":"2010-05-11T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2010-05-11T02:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T19:00:22","slug":"twitter-hacked-again-only-chuck-norris-can-save-us-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/twitter-hacked-again-only-chuck-norris-can-save-us-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter hacked (again): only CHUCK NORRIS can save us now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter\u2019s meltdown today saw every user lose all their followers \u2013 at least on paper \u2013 as the company\u2019s emergency solution for closing the newly discovered loophole (which allowed any user to force any other user to automatically follow back) has involved temporarily shutting down everyone\u2019s ability to follow or unfollow, with the result being that every Twitter user is now listed as having zero followers and following zero people themselves. While Twitter is still otherwise working in that users can still tweet and view their timelines, those celebrities with the largest disparity in their follower-to-following ratio are seeing the biggest impact from the glitch. Here\u2019s what a few of them have had to say on the matter:<\/p>\n

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Ashton Kutcher, Twitter\u2019s most-followed user: \u201ctwitter is being hacked by some turkish hacker. haha I have 0 followers.\u201d<\/div>\n
Perez Hilton, whom some are crediting for having primarily helped spread the hacking method: \u201cTo force someone to follow you on Twitter, type \u201caccept [username without the @ symbol]\u201c, e.g. accept [AplusK]\u201d [editor’s note: this no longer works]<\/div>\n
\u2026and from Twitter itself: \u201cFollow count display is set to 0 and follow\/unfollow is temporarily offline while we fix a bug.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

only CHUCK NORRIS can save us now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2871],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBYZ-dX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}