We’ve seen some bugs in our time, but this one puts the cherry on the cake. A new exploit discovered in Twitter’s system is the ultimate ego sweller. By simply typing “accept [username]” into Twitter’s homepage, you can automatically force people to follow you, without them even knowing it.

Try it for yourself, tweet “accept Sporkings” and we’ll automatically be following you, with no permission or knowledge of the fact, on our end.

This is absolute madness. TechCrunch EU posted about this moments ago, and we’re already seeing some absolutely hilarious activity. Things are about to get very interesting, unless Twitter can fix this quickly!

[Update 1 (17:50)] It appears Twitter have whiped everyone’s following/followers lists. Everyone’s profiles display 0 following/followers, but the API is still running, and people can still see/reply to your Tweets. This leads us to assume Twitter are working on the problem and have disabled Follower Lists for the moment, until they can resolve the exploit.