Turkish student apologises for 'bringing down Twitter' but denies being a hacker
The 17 year-old told The Daily Telegraph that he was “not proud” of the "chaos" caused by the security glitch that left users, including many celebrities, with no “followers”.
But the high school student, from the north Turkish city of Zonguldak, denied he was “hacker”, claiming he only stumbled across problems with the site and tried to pass on to Twitter administrators without success.
The bug, which was fixed late on Monday, hit millions worldwide and left users to temporarily lose the list of people who followed them on the social networking site. It also allowed any Twitter user to force another to follow them without permission. Normally, the other person has to initiate such a "following".
