This is an unlisted tweet
Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Twitter’s experiment in letting two people tweet together has a weird loophole. It’s now possible to accidentally make an unlisted tweet. It’s not private, but you can only see it if someone sends you a link. Or embeds it in a website. Here is my unlisted tweet: This is an unlisted tweet.Try to find it in my timeline.Try to search for it.— Sean Hollister (@StarFire2258) July 14, 2022 These tweets do not appear in your timeline, and they do not appear if you search for them — and yet, they exist. People can even reply to them. And, if they do, those replies will appear in a Twitter search, and people can find the original tweet in a roundabout way. If a tweet falls in a forest... Here’s the trick, assuming you have access to... Continue reading…
Twitter’s experiment in letting two people tweet together has a weird loophole. It’s now possible to accidentally make an unlisted tweet. It’s not private, but you can only see it if someone sends you a link. Or embeds it in a website.
This is an unlisted tweet.
— Sean Hollister (@StarFire2258) July 14, 2022
Try to find it in my timeline.
Try to search for it.
These tweets do not appear in your timeline, and they do not appear if you search for them — and yet, they exist. People can even reply to them. And, if they do, those replies will appear in a Twitter search, and people can find the original tweet in a roundabout way.
Here’s the trick, assuming you have access to...
