Twitter disclosed that a security incident caused private tweets sent to Twitter Circles to show publicly to users outside of the Circle.
Twitter Circle, which is a feature released in August 2022 allows users to send tweets to a small circle of people, and keeps them private from the public.
The user can choose who’s in their Twitter Circle, and only the individuals added in it can reply to and interact with the Tweets that are shared in the circle. The users can include up to 150 people in their Twitter Circles. An individual Twitter user can have only one Circle.
However, last month Twitter users began warning that tweets to Twitter Circles were no longer private and shown publicly to people outside of the Circle in their timelines.
Twitter has sent a notification to all impacted users stating that a ‘security incident’ is behind the public display of private Twitter Circle tweets.
The social media giant said that the issue was identified by their security team and immediately fixed so that these tweets were no longer visible outside of the private Circle.
While Twitter did not share what caused this security incident, the social site has rapidly changed the platform since Elon Musk took ownership.
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