Twitter bug may have sent users’ direct messages to external developers

A bug in how Twitter’s platform is accessed by third-party app developers may have exposed certain direct messages of select users to developers who do not work for Twitter, the company disclosed in a blog post today.Twitter says the bug was active starting sometime in May of 2017, and Twitter issued a fix within hours of discovering it on September 10th, 2018. It affected less than 1 percent of users, and the direct messages affected were those between users and accounts or businesses th