Twitter just disclosed the existence of the kind of privacy bug you’d normally expect to hear coming out of Facebook, which has been dogged repeatedly by this kind of thing over the years. Now it’s Twitter’s turn, with the social network acknowledging today an issue affecting the “Protect your Tweets” feature associated with some accounts. Turns out, some Android users who enabled that setting — which sets their tweets to “private” — actually had their tweets displayed publicly. For a shockingly long amount of time, almost five years.
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Twitter has acknowledged a bug that revealed Android users’ private tweets originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 15:49:59 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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