Privacy Disaster at Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed on “Everybody” Feed

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Twitter user Orli Yakuel, with 650 followers, had a nasty surprise this morning - all of her direct messages (private messages between two Twitter users) showed up in her normal Twitter stream. Friends messaged her to tell her about the embarrassing issue as reported by TechCrunch   This doesn’t bode well for Twitter, which has not been monetized so far (or not really at least).  A few days back we blogged about Twitter gearing up for Earth Day using Twitearth. So far only 2000 Indians are on Twitter. There has been a notable increase in the number of Industry Execs coming on to Twitter. The CEO of Times Internet signed up yesterday

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