{"id":9891,"date":"2023-05-06T10:38:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T08:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/06\/twitter-admits-to-security-incident-involving-circles-tweets\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T10:38:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T08:38:03","slug":"twitter-admits-to-security-incident-involving-circles-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/06\/twitter-admits-to-security-incident-involving-circles-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter admits to \u2018security incident\u2019 involving Circles tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to read<\/p>\n<p>A privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster\u2019s closest friends to the site at large, the company has admitted after weeks of stonewalling reports.<\/p>\n<p>The site\u2019s Circles feature allows users to set an exclusive list of friends and post tweets that only they can read. Similar to Instagram\u2019s Close Friends setting, it allows users to share private thoughts, explicit images or unprofessional statements without risking sharing them with their wider network.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/06\/twitter-admits-to-security-incident-involving-circles-tweets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8bfd923e478e20ada903f20932efcdc3b81d00fd\/0_0_5663_3400\/master\/5663.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6ed093e5ef8e7795986133ce61559199\" title=\"Twitter admits to \u2018security incident\u2019 involving Circles tweets\" \/>Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to read<br \/>\nA privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster\u2019s closest friends to the site at large, the company has admitted after weeks of stonewalling reports.<br \/>\nThe site\u2019s Circles feature allows users to set an exclusive list of friends and post tweets that only they can read. Similar to Instagram\u2019s Close Friends setting, it allows users to share private thoughts, explicit images or unprofessional statements without risking sharing them with their wider network. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to read A privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster\u2019s closest friends to the site at large, the company has admitted after weeks of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/06\/twitter-admits-to-security-incident-involving-circles-tweets\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter admits to \u2018security incident\u2019 involving Circles tweets<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}