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Quick Summary: My Twitter Direct Message Retweet Bug Meme is shaping up into an interesting social media experiment.
Here’s a quick background and description of my Twitter Direct Message Retweet Bug Meme —
@twilightfairy & @shweta have been having fun with my Twitter direct message retweet bug. (link)
Basically, if you send me a direct message on Twitter, it gets re-tweeted as my own message because of a Twitter bug. (link)
I have requested Twitter to fix it, but they haven’t come around to it yet. Guess they have bigger problems to fix. (link)
While Twitter finds time to fix my direct message retweet bug, let’s have a little fun with it. (link)
If you want your message to be retweeted to my 450+ Twitter followers, send it to me as a direct message. (link)
What fun! To have even more fun with my direct retweet meme, ask your followers to send a direct message to me.
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Here are the conversations that my Twitter Direct Message Retweet Bug Meme has generated so far –
@Gauravonomics, I heard the messages sent directly to you shows up in your twitter feed
@Gauravonomics sure its a twitter bug and not some twitterfeed. how n why with your account only i wonder otherwise (from @prsn)
@Gauravonomics who me?! … dont fake the identity behind the retweets.. u are the man!
(from @twilightfairy)
@Gauravonomics It looks like your twitter/twitterfeed bug is impl on my post [Setting up a Pvt Twitter Channel http://tinyurl.com/3badmw ] (from @thej)
@Gauravonomics how do we know you are not reposting the direct messages as tweets?
(from @Anant)
@Gauravonomics WTF happened to privacy? (from @vulturo)
@Gauravonomics That’s freaky (not mention a major privacy concern). What’s Twitter saying about it? (from @cgranier)
@Gauravonomics ur re-tweet has now become a free classified
@Gauravonomics you are the chanmod, to borrow from IRC (from @aamanlamba)
@shweta @twilightfairy You naughty women! Thanks for giving me the Twitter direct message retweet bug meme idea. (link)
@prsn @anant No, my friends, I’m not re-posting your direct messages. It is actually a (very irritating) Twitter bug. (link)
@cgranier @vulturo Yes, the Twitter direct message retweet bug is a serious privacy concern. Twitter hasn’t yet responded. (link)
So, the Twitter direct message retweet bug meme is basically me trying to wring some fun out of an irritating situation. (link)
@Thej No, the Twitter direct message retweet bug is not a Twitterfeed hack. See, there is no half hour time delay. (link)
@Thej @Prsn You give me too much credit, my friends. I wish I could hack Twitter like you think I can. (link)
Here are the people who have participated in my Twitter Direct Message Retweet Bug Meme by sending me a direct messages that they want to be re-tweeted –
[Brajeshwar] Foo Bar - Lorem ipsum dolor sit met. Testing the Twitter bug. (link)
[robinwauters] Come to Plugg, the European Web 2.0 Conference - http://plugg.eu (link)
[Brajeshwar] hey @Brajeshwar Why are you hijacking my twitter relay bug? (link)
[twilightfairy] u are all invited to my sea facing house and I shall cook world class Ravioli for you. 29th Feb. be there. (link)
[Brajeshwar] Gaurav. This is real fun. I think Twitter treats you as their special twitterer. (link)
[cgranier] Testing Gaurav’s Twitter Soap Box! Follow me @cgranier if you’re into Social Networks and Digital Media! Thanks Gaurav! (link)
[mayankdhingra] from @gaurav’s followers import web-enthusiasts,bloggers,social-networkers, entrepreneurs… follow @mayankdhingra… Thanks (link)
[mayankdhingra] Was I a bit late? got li’l response.all web-enthusiasts,bloggers,social-networkers,entrepreneurs in d house follow @mayankdhingra (link)
To be updated as more direct messages come in…
Comments (2)
The same happens to me: some 3rd party app must be responsible, cause when I change the password, it stops.
Rgds,
rafa
@Rafa Montaya: Ah! That’s what the Twitter support people told me too! Strange, isn’t it?