Oh man, I sure hope Trump was one of them
Seeing what his public tweets are like, one can only imagine the DMs he must send!
Twitter is in full damage control mode after disclosing that it may have inappropriately exposed some unlucky twits' private tweets and direct messages to strangers. The 280-character shoutfest admitted on Friday that a bug present in one of its APIs from May 2017 to September 10, 2018, could have caused some messages to leak …
I was more interested in the fact they've announced it, tried to imply that the potentially affected 3.4 million people is a only a small number of "less than 1%" and then ended by claiming of the accounts reviewed so far, no one is affected.
That tells me that they are more scared of privacy laws than bad publicity, at least in this particular circumstance.
That tells me that they are more scared of privacy laws than bad publicity, at least in this particular circumstance.
Agreed. The set of circumstances that they provided in order for the bug to occur did seem a little unlikely - certainly not something that could impact a small number of millions of different people.