Author: Sean Hollister
Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge
Twitter’s experiment in letting two people tweet together has a weird loophole. It’s now possible to accidentally make an unlisted tweet. It’s not private, but you can only see it if someone sends you a link. Or embeds it in a website.
Here is my unlisted tweet:
These tweets do not appear in your timeline, and they do not appear if you search for them — and yet, they exist. People can even reply to them. And, if they do, those replies will appear in a Twitter search, and people can find the original tweet in a roundabout way.
If a tweet falls in a forest...
Here’s the trick, assuming you have access to...
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Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge
Twitter’s experiment in letting two people tweet together has a weird loophole. It’s now possible to accidentally make an unlisted tweet. It’s not private, but you can only see it if someone sends you a link. Or embeds it in a website.
Here is my unlisted tweet:
These tweets do not appear in your timeline, and they do not appear if you search for them — and yet, they exist. People can even reply to them. And, if they do, those replies will appear in a Twitter search, and people can find the original tweet in a roundabout way.
If a tweet falls in a forest...
Here’s the trick, assuming you have access to...
Continue reading…
Continue reading...