Trouble in the Twitter circle, ‘secret post’ leaks | Forbes JAPAN Official Site (Forbes Japan)

Last August, Twitter released a service called Twitter Circle, which allows only members selected by the user to view tweets, but currently there is a problem with this function, and it seems that anyone can view private tweets. . From nude photos to gossip, posts that we thought would only be shared in small circles are now in the public eye.

The incident was reported by news site BuzzFeed, and was reported by several users.

“Circles are no longer a private place. Sensitive content should not be posted,” one user tweeted on April 8. Another user created a circle of only one person and posted, and reported that two people who were not following saw the tweet and liked it.

In addition, tweets posted to circles may even appear in the “For You” list of users who don’t follow the account.

Forbes reached out to Twitter’s media outreach email address and received an autoresponder poop emoji yesterday. The company has reportedly laid off employees in its public relations department after a major layoff, with Elon Musk tweeting last month that he will now auto-reply emails to public relations with a poop emoji. .

Musk, who acquired Twitter last October, has caused a lot of confusion, not just this one. Musk is set to speak at the Possible Conference, a marketing industry event in Miami later this month, after several advertisers objected to Musk’s racist remarks.

But it’s not just his racist rhetoric that worries big brands. Musk has increasingly shown his extremely childish humor on Twitter, prompting family-friendly brands to shy away from advertising.

The most recent example of Musk’s childish behavior was on the 9th, when he painted out the letter “W” on Twitter’s signboard at his San Francisco headquarters in white, making it “Titter.” It seems that this was a joke about tits (tits), and users said, “It’s like a 12-year-old child.”

The Circle riot is clearly the latest issue to thwart Twitter’s efforts to reassure advertisers. However, Musk is unlikely to change his mind and has shown no signs of worrying about the turmoil. The poop emoji reply seems to say it all.

(forbes.com original)