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January 17, 2019 10:24 pm -05

Twitter bug that made your private tweets public went unnoticed for over 4 years

Twitter users with an Android device should double- check their accounts, especially if they sent a tweet sometime between 2014 and 2019.

We’ve become aware of and fixed an issue where the “Protect your Tweets” setting was disabled on Twitter for Android. Those affected have been alerted and we’ve turned the setting back on for them. More here: https://t.co/0qM5B1S393

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) January 17, 2019

In a statement posted on the Twitter help forum on Thursday, the social network disclosed details surrounding a privacy bug that affected Twitter for Android users with protected tweets.  Read more...

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