Technical setbacks accumulate for Twitter. The latest would concern this time the “Circle” functionality, allowing users to post messages to a smaller community. A malfunction in the platform appears to make tweets posted to “Twitter Circles” appear as normal tweets, netizens have found. In other words, everyone could have access to these messages yet considered private.
The failure was noted by many Internet users who challenged the social network on this problem. “Pay attention to functionality CircleI made a private tweet and it was seen by people who weren’t in my circle (including people I don’t follow [suis] not)”, says one of them. “That’s it, it happened: someone who is not in my Twitter circle liked something from my circle”, describes another.
As a reminder, users who use the “Circle” feature can share their tweets with contacts chosen upstream in the application settings. However, many Internet users have found that their messages may have been “liked” or commented on by people whom they had not yet handpicked. However, this outage only affects messages published via “Circles” and not those published by private accounts.
The platform has not yet commented on this bug. Some, like the specialized media Spottersargue that this failure would be linked to the Twitter algorithm which would not be able to distinguish classic tweets from tweets considered private.
A series of outages for several months
The social network had already experienced a brief outage in early March which prevented the opening of links to external content. It was at least the sixth major outage since the start of the year after an already complicated end to 2022. For many, the arrival of Elon Musk at the head of the social network was accompanied by a series of online outages.
Difficulties which could have a link with the reduced staff who now work for Twitter. As we mentioned last month, there would be only 500 full-time developers out of the 2,000 remaining employees after several waves of forced departures since last November. Dismissals as well as voluntary departures then amputated these meager teams of internal skills.