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Twitter Accidentally Shows Users Someone Else’s Timeline

8 points| sammville | 15 years ago |techcrunch.com | reply

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[+] antiterra|15 years ago|reply
Every time I use Twitter, I ask myself, "How long can this amazing and terrible zeppelin of bubblegum, balsa wood and toilet paper possibly stay aloft?"

I'm not sure if aloft is even the right word, there hasn't been a time in recent memory where I wasn't able to trigger a "Whoops! Something went wrong, please try again," or, what I'm getting now: "Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing..."

[+] jonknee|15 years ago|reply
This happened to me (refresh and see my timeline, refresh someone else's, AJAX refresh in my tweets in someone else's timeline, etc) and I'm now seeing the old web interface. Odd.
[+] phlux|15 years ago|reply
I love how showing other peoples timelines, retweets and who-knows-what is not a security issue.

These aren't the bugs you're looking for. Move Along.

[+] bkudria|15 years ago|reply
Their rationale could be that (if this is only affecting public tweets) no private data was exposed.

Or, maybe, since you can't steal anyone's password or anything, it's not a security issue.

What were you talking about?