Apparently testing out social media-enabled voter awareness app Votizen, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has just sent out a litany of tweets to people he follows, endorsing SF candidate Ed Lee for Mayor; “Will you endorse @EdLeeforMayor for Mayor on @Votizen https://www.votizen.com/m/93t6at/,” like that times 30.

While Twitter representative Sean Garrett tweeted that Biz “press[ing] the wrong button” was responsible for the spam, I haven’t been able to replicate the effect on Votizen, which appears to be super buggy this morning. Wherever that darned button is, I can’t find it.

Of course the spam led to a barrage of  n00b jokes from techies, the most notable being from a tweet former Twitter VP of product and Obvious Corp co-founder Jason Goldman, “It would be awesome if @biz knew how to use @twitter better.”

Some of the best, besides Goldman’s, below:

hey @biz look at this funny picture I found of you! youtu.be/sP4NMoJcFd4—
Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk) October 07, 2011

@biz I am not sure why any techie should endorse a mayor that let pier 38 die on his watch. Sf politics sucks to be honest @edleeformayor—
Om Malik (@om) October 07, 2011

@marshallk Holy LOLcats. That's a lot of tweets. @Votizen just got a lot more visible. I bet they'll make that button bigger now as a result—
Alex Howard (@digiphile) October 07, 2011

I just endorsed @JeffAdachi on #votizen – you should too votizen.com/m/5ro4tf/—
Alexia Tsotsis (@alexia) October 07, 2011

@alexia show off.—
Sean Garrett (@SG) October 07, 2011

@biz Will you endorse me as the sexiest person on Twitter except for @Beyonce?—
Anil Dash (@anildash) October 07, 2011

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