Some Private Messages on Twitter Could Have Been Shared with Users

Social media platform Twitter dodged a bullet recently, as the company patched a bug that may have shared the private messages of its users.

The bug had impacted under 1% of Twitter’s total user base and was limited to private messages that were sent to brands customer service accounts.

It was on Friday that Twitter said it had patched the bug that may have affected millions of users.

“We have no evidence to suggest that any data was improperly misused or exploited anywhere,” a company spokeswoman told CNBC.

According to the spokeswoman, the bug could only occur if a series of complex criteria were met. “There’s virtually no possibility that this happened, but we still want to be thorough.”

She also said that no private messages between individual users were shared with external software developers.

Twitter has contacted third-party “developers who may have been impacted,” the company said in a blog post.

Twitter said that it is still investigating the situation.

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