Since the arrival of Elon Musk, trial and error has been the main characteristic of the new Twitter. There are several changes implemented by the tycoon, including verification fee, and also notable flaws. The most recent: make public tweets that are private.
Several users detected the bug, As BGR explains, why tweets meant to be seen only on Circle (Twitter circle, in the Spanish version) They end up being public.
Let’s remember that Circle is an option introduced in 2022, before the arrival of Elon Musk, for network users to create private groups of followers, sharing posts with them.
Describe la red social: “The Twitter Circle is a way of send tweets to certain people in order to share your impressions with a smaller group”.
“You choose the participants of your Twitter Circle and Only the people you’ve added can reply to and interact with the tweets you share in the circle.”
“It has been,” according to BGR, “a way for creators to share more intimate things with a smaller group of subscribers who can also pay for the privilege.”
The error that exposes the Circle tweets was shown by the user T3dotgg en la red social. “I confirmed that someone I don’t even follow was able to see a private tweet from Twitter Circle,” he wrote. “This greatly damages trust in the platform. It should be Twitter’s top priority.”
However, Elon Musk’s social network has not acknowledged or fixed the bug.
Twitter changes continue: old verification will be lost on April 20
The verification process, now done through Twitter Blue for a monthly or yearly payment, will finish filtering the verified old ones on April 20, as confirmed by Elon Musk.
Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023
Due to this, the people who had the blue badge before the arrival of the tycoon and decided not to pay for the service, they will lose it
Currently, they all have Blue Check, but with the explanation from Twitter that “this account is verified because it is subscribed to Twitter Blue or because it is a verified account according to the old system”.
