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Your Private tweets may be accessible by Google : Los Angeles Times
Tags: Google, Los Angeles Times, Private tweets, Search Engine Land, twitter
The Los Angeles Times reported on 19th OCT about “A Twitter hole lets you Google protected tweets”.
Danny Sullivan is editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land checked with Twitter and got back the official word from their press office: – “The TechCrunch article seems to sum up the confusion pretty well. It seems that the LA Times piece references tweets that were public but later the user protected the account, thus all subsequent tweets are private along with the profile. The tweets prior to that time cannot be un-cached.
Google has not been given a key to the castle…so to speak.
I’m good with this answer except for the word I’ve bolded — that formerly public tweets cannot be uncached. That’s incorrect.
Let’s take an example. Let’s assume you started your Twitter account in March. You started tweeting publicly, then in July decided to be private. Twitter doesn’t try to protect any of your past tweets. In fact, it’s pretty clear about this in its help page on the topic:
If you have a public account and you protect it, all updates after the time of protection will be protected. Your profile will only be visible to approved followers, and existing followers will not be affected.” Read more…
Source : Search Engine Land, Tech Crunch & Los angeles Times
