A NUMBER of Twitter users have had their nudes leaked on the social media platform after a popular privacy feature broke.
The Twitter Circles feature is the latest technical hitch amid Elon Musk’s overhaul of the app.
The feature was launched in August last year, just two months before Musk’s $44billion takeover of the company.
It promised users the ability to choose who can engage with their content on a tweet-by-tweet basis.
On a platform of about 368million users, Tweeters can use Circles to discreetly share tweets with up to 150 accounts of their choice.
But since last night, users have been warning others that there’s a glitch.
Anything posted within the supposedly private Circle ends up on other people’s ‘For You’ pages – the homepage where you are given a stream of curated posts from people you aren’t following.
This means that these private images weren’t even shared with followers or mutuals, but with random strangers on the internet.
One user, who accidentally had their nude photos leaks, Tweeted: “Aaaaand Twitter Circles is broken.
“I posted a nude to Circles yesterday and some (perfectly nice!) rando who I don’t follow just liked it. Delete your Circles Nudes!!!”
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/22007355/twitter-circles-glitch-reveals-nudes-to-strangers/