Twitter admits 'security incident' made private Circles not so much

Twitter has finally admitted a "security incident" caused some users' semi-private Twitter Circle tweets to show up on others' timelines. Some of these tweeters took to — where else — Twitter to share an email they received this weekend. "In April 2023, a security incident that may have allowed users outside of your Twitter …

[JWLong]

It's Twitter

No one cares...........

[trevorde]

Tweet from Elon Musk

Dear Security Circle,

please fix the bug about private circles showing up on other's timelines ASAP

Elon Musk

PS you're all fired

[that one in the corner]

Think of it as Free Speech In Action

You didn't want everyone seeing that message?

Why? What are you trying to hide?

Anyway, you gave it to us for free, we are free to do with it what we want. Free speech from you, for us to freely monetise. That is The American Way[1]

You disagree? So *that* is what you were hiding, you Unamerican commie you!

[1] As freely interpreted in The Book Of Elon, just after The Whitepaper[2]

[2] All Hail The Whitepaper

[Howard Sway]

It took the Elon Musk-run biz nearly a month to notify users about the privacy breach

Remember that his big plan is to turn Twitter into the "everything app" that you trust all your money and online activity to. Looks like he needs to hire a lot more more rigorous and experienced engineers throughout the company if it's not going to end up as the "everything about you and your finances has just been leaked online app".

He'd better do it quickly, otherwise there'll be a big pile of stories like this when he launches it and tries to assure people it's "safe".

[Anonymous Coward]

Life, without social media

As it was meant to be.