[PennsylvaniaMom]

Anyone else think its just a little suspicious, that the Monday after our Dear Leader, during a commencement speech, calls out our culture for having 'too much information.'

The President who 'loves his CrackBerry' proclaims we can't be 'emancipated' from (what?) with all of our 'information.'

And then Twitter takes a hit.

Coinky dinky???

[rwfromkansas]

Twitter is doing just fine. Just got to the site very easily.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

From what I’m gathering....Twitter zapped the ‘following/follower’ lists on accounts.

[Major Matt Mason]

Twitter usually freezes up around noon because the lunchtime traffic puts a burden on the servers. Obama's statements are troubling, of course, but this has nothing to do with Twitter no being able to handle the increased server load.

[a fool in paradise]

BObama is probably upset that even with choosing a SC nominee who has no paper trail of judicial decisions, corporate ties and other details are coming to light on her background.

[diotima]

It's because of this: Force someone to follow you on twitter

[MediaMole]

Twitter, the service the that popularized the Fail Whale is having technical issues? Say it isn’t so.

[Cagey]

From Twitter:

Follow bug discovered, remedied. 26 minutes 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.

[JohnBrowdie]

yep. following/followers at 0, but I am still seeing followed posts in my home view.

[Willie Green]

Now that you mention it, there's something odd going on at YouTube as well.

[bootless]

I hear it;s a Turkish hacker. Twitter says it’s someone that wrote script or something that forces follows.

Just so happens that Glenn Beck’s list of people he’s following has jumped from 18 to 20 ... including a Turkish tweep: www.twitter.com/gezegenci. May or may not be them. Another new person Beck’s profile is supposedly following is Tylergillies. Don’t know either one of them, but genegenci is from istanbul, posts only in Turkish, and is also following Hugo Chavez.

??

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Civilization is saved!!! And Conan O’Brien will spend the rest of the day deleting (like Perez Hilton; Sean Hannity; and the Jonas Brothers) thousands of ‘forced’ followings.

Whew...

THAT was a close call.