Twitter bug revealed some Android users’ private tweets

guest · Jan 17, 2019

Twitter bug revealed some Android users’ private tweets
January 17, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/twitter-bug-revealed-some-android-users-private-tweets/

Twitter accidentally revealed some users’ “protected” (aka, private) tweets, the company disclosed this afternoon. The “Protect your Tweets” setting typically allows people to use Twitter in a non-public fashion.

[...] impacted Twitter for Android users who made certain account changes [...] For example, if the user had changed their account email address, the “Protect your Tweets” setting was disabled.
Twitter says that users may have been impacted by the problem if they made these accounts changes between November 3, 2014, and January 14, 2019 – the day the bug was fixed.

This is a sizable mistake on Twitter’s part, as it essentially made content that users had explicitly indicated they wanted private available to the public. It’s unclear at this time if the issue will result in a GDPR violation and fine, as a result.
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Floyd 57 · Jan 17, 2019

Twitter says that users may have been impacted by the problem if they made these accounts changes between November 3, 2014, and January 14, 2019 – the day the bug was fixed
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