Twitter bug made people's private tweets public, company admits

A Twitter bug meant that private tweets were made public, the site has admitted. Android users who had kept their private for more than four years were vulnerable to the bug, which would have exposed their posts despite them having chosen for them not to be public. The company allows users to protect tweets, hiding them from public view so that only approved people can follow and read posts from an account. Twitter users often protect their tweets because allowing anyone to read them might endanger them or cause other problems. Those using Twitter for Android may have been affected by the bug if they made changes to their account's settings, such as changing the email address they use on their account, Twitter said.