Whilst I would never suggest people tweet out a certain unicode string, which causes anyone on OSX using the twitter client to crash, I will say, it is damned funny.
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/02/you-...ty-characters/
This is part of an ongoing bug in OSX with the way it handles unicode strings. In fact just putting this:
Is enough to upset users of Safari apparently, creating render bugs and high CPU useage.ه҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͫͬͩͮͨͪͯͥͥͫͪͧͣͯͪͨͣͥͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͥͨͪͫͬͭͮͯͥͤͣͥͨͪͧͣͯͬͪ ҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈ͪͨͪͫͬͩͮͯͥͨͣͥͫͪͧͣͯͥͬͪ
So kids, watch what you tweet, and OSX users beware of strange DoS attacks over the next few months until it gets patched.


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