Twitter does not delete your direct messages even if you delete them

Users on Twitter always have the possibility to delete direct messages that we have sent. Although it seems that the social network is not doing everything right in this regard. Because you would be storing direct messages, even if they have been deleted. This has been discovered thanks to a security analyst. It could be seen that messages from years ago had not been deleted by the social network.

Twitter does not delete your direct messages even if you delete them

This is something that could be seen in the history of the file that is downloaded to the user's account. These messages could be seen in it. Something that the social network has confirmed.

Privacy breach on Twitter?

It would be a notable privacy problem for the social network. While they haven't had the same issues as Facebook, Twitter is no stranger to privacy issues, either. In fact, months ago, a bug in the social network allowed third-party application developers to access messages from some 335 million users of it.

For this reason, this new situation supposes a new controversy for the social network. At the moment, no communication has been issued by him on this specific case. They are expected to say something soon.

One of the reasons Twitter gives to keep such data is to give users the ability to report abuse. Or if such data is needed, as a test in some kind of situation. Although the information the security analyst has discovered was about eleven years old.

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