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That Twitter Exploit Patch Brought Some Neat New Features Along With It

By Kyle VanHemert Published September 21, 2010, 12:58 pm ET

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Twitter was going nuts this morning with a fresh exploit that had people inadvertently retweeting spam links left and right, but thankfully Twitter was quick to patch things up. And as it happens their fix didn’t just fix things, it improved them: the patch brought Reply to All and Auto-Complete features to the recently revamped Twitter.com. I’ll take it! [TechCrunch]

https://gizmodo.com/there-was-a-new-twitter-exploit-and-it-was-spreading-li-5643732

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