From PC Mag: Are you sharing private musings on Twitter Circles? You may want to reconsider, as some of these private tweets are showing up on public For You timelines.
With a Twitter Circle, you can share tweets with a select group, similar to Instagram's Close Friends feature. But as TechCrunch reports, a bug is causing tweets intended for private Circles to be shared with a wider audience than intended.
These tweets are largely popping up in the For You timeline of users who follow the Circle tweet poster but aren’t in their Circle. However, some Twitter users say Circle tweets are appearing on their timelines despite not even following the poster.
As one Twitter user notes, someone they weren’t following was able to see a private Twitter Circle tweet they had posted. “This hurts trust in the platform a lot,” they tweeted.
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