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Twitter Bug May Have Sent DMs to Unknown Developers

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By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 22 September 2018 11:15 IST

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A bug in Twitter's platform for third-party app developers exposed some Direct Messages (DMs) from nearly 3 million s to outsiders, the micro-blogging platform has itted. 313o1n

The bug ran from May 2017 and within hours of discovering it on September 10, Twitter said it fixed the bug to prevent data from being unintentionally sent to the incorrect developer.

"The bug affected less than 1 per cent of people on Twitter. The bug may have caused some of these interactions to be unintentionally sent to another ed developer," Twitter said in a blog post on Saturday.

"In some cases, this may have included certain DMs or protected tweets, for example a Direct Message with an airline that had authorised an Activity API (AAAPI) developer."

The Activity API allows ed developers to build tools to better businesses and their communications with customers on Twitter.

Twitter currently has over 336 million s and one percent means nearly 3 million of those were affected.

If your business authorised a developer using the AAAPI to access your , the bug may have impacted your activity data in error.

"We're very sorry this happened. If your was affected by this bug, we will you directly through an in-app notice and on twitter.com," said the company.

In May, the micro-blogging platform asked its 336 million s to change their across its services after it discovered a bug that stored s in plain text in an internal system.

Twitter said it found no sign that hackers accessed the exposed data but advised s that they should enter a new on all services where their current has been used.

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