Twitter discovers bug that may have affected users since 2014

Bad news for Twitter users, as the company has just admitted that it recently discovered a bug that may have affected Android users since November 3, 2014.

The issue wasn’t present on the iOS version of the app, so if you have an iPhone, your tweets should be safe from prying eyes.

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The bug found in Twitter for Android disabled the “Protect your Tweets” setting if certain account changes were made.

Basically, if you had protected Tweets turned on in your settings, and then made certain changes to account settings (i.e. change email address), then your private tweets may have been exposed to other users.

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