Twitter exposed some Android users’ protected tweets, and didn’t notice for over four years
Credit:
Graham Cluley
Twitter has owned up to a privacy goof that exposed some Android users’ private tweets.
That would be bad enough if the problem existed for an hour, or a day, or a month. But unfortunately for Twitter (and affected users) the problem was present from November 3 2014 until January 14 2019.
That’s over four years.
The good news is that the problem only affected users of Twitter for Android who had enabled the “Protect your Tweets” setting. The vast majority of Twitter users don’t protect their tweets, and in fact when you create an account on Twitter it is public by default - meaning anyone can view and interact with your tweets.
