Twitter says a bug led to the "Protect your Tweets" setting being disabled for some Android users for almost five years, making their tweets public (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter says a bug led to the “Protect your Tweets” setting being disabled for some Android users for almost five years, making their tweets public  —  Twitter accidentally revealed some users' “protected” (aka, private) tweets, the company disclosed this afternoon.

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