Twitter bug exposed private tweets of Android users to public for years

By Carolina A security bug in Twitter exposed private tweets of users to the public. The flaw only affected Android users of the Twitter app while iPhone users were not affected. According to Twitter, private tweets of users from November 3, 2014, to January 14, 2019, were exposed. Although the...

Twitter Android Glitch Exposed Private Tweets for Years

Twitter disclosed a security issue on Thursday that had exposed protected tweets on Android devices – for more than four years. According to the social media giant, if Twitter users on the Android operating system made specific changes to their account settings – like changing the email address...

A Twitter Bug Left Android Users' Private Tweets Exposed For 4 Years

Twitter just admitted that the social network accidentally revealed some Android users' protected tweets to the public for more than 4 years — a kind of privacy blunder that you'd typically expect from Facebook. When you sign up for Twitter, all your Tweets are public by default, allowing anyone ...

X (Formerly Twitter): Global defaming of any twitter user

Private tweets can be used to keep any user's tweet secret from rest of twitter world. Once the user changes his setting from private tweets to public tweets, all his secret tweets become visible. This can become a major issue causing global distributed attacks Steps to Reproduce 1. Assume the...

X (Formerly Twitter): Can see private tweets via keyword searches on tweetdeck

I'm not the best at finding "why" this happened, but I am pretty sure it's not supposed to. I was keyword searching "protonmail invite" and this came up even though the user was not on public nor did i follow him. I go to twitter.com and search for the exact same tweet, nothing comes up of his...