In August 2022, Twitter implemented a new complementary function to lock the account, that is, make it private and that only the people you allow to follow you see the content, the Twitter ‘Circles’. This function, similar to that of ‘Best Friends’ on Instagram, allows you to upload tweets that are only visible to selected users. So since it was launched, it has been widely used to share photos and spicy content. However, just this week, several Twitter users were horrified to learn that their ‘nudes’ (photos without clothes) were being made public to random and unknown users.
Apparently, this content is appearing in the ‘For You’ section of users who don’t even follow the account that posted it. A complaint that has been repeated at the end of last week, when the first users appeared warning about it, showing screenshots of ‘likes’ from complete strangers who are neither followers nor selected as members of the circle.
From EL MUNDO we have verified this same failure, appearing in the ‘For you’ section a tweet with a photo of a scantily clad user, in which the retweet appeared deactivated. When you click on the publication to open it, it disappears, but when you go back it reappears together with the rest of the section. When asking said user, who prefers to remain anonymous, if that same tweet was addressed to her Twitter ‘Circle’, she confirmed that it was, so she preferred to delete all the content published in this way, which has already ceased to be ‘private’.
It is not in all cases, apparently this failure is occurring randomly, but of course, what a task if it touches you. “Twitter seems to be completely failing to filter private content before delivering it to users,” Theo Browne, a former Twitch engineer, told TechCrunch. The company, -which has been renamed X Corp a few hours ago (a legal change from Elon Musk with still unknown intentions)- has already seen part of its source code leaked on GitHub and in turn consciously revealed part of its tweet recommendation algorithm , some movements that in matters of cybersecurity do not seem very successful.
When asking the company about this matter through Twitter’s press email, an automatic reply is received with a poop emoticon, so it does not make it difficult to obtain confirmation of why or how it happened. this ruling in the Circles. Although this is not the only joke that the billionaire plays, at the headquarters of the social network, he has ordered the letter W of Twitter to be painted in the background color, so that it reads Titter in reference to the female bust. Endless controversies that include different movements that have raised, intentionally or not, cryptocurrencies such as dogecoin.
The failures and problems are adding together with other complaints from users in reference to the verified account indicative and the possibility of obtaining it, along with other benefits such as editing tweets or having more characters than the rest, after paying the subscription to Twitter Blue . Even on previous occasions it was reported that posts on the social network of people who were blocked could be seen, a privacy problem that many users complain about and that seems to be growing.
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