Twitter is now facing new bugs that plague its latest social media feature, the Fleets Stories, which recently debuted earlier last week. The Twitter Fleets bugs allow people and followers to see and download expired stories or those that have exceeded the 24-hour limit, which is the primary function of the feature.
The famous short word social media company, Twitter, faces the early development issues of its latest Fleets Stories feature that resembles popular Social Media features from Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, etc. The Fleets were supposed to be Twitter's latest feature to boast an all-in-one platform with text and video expressions.
Twitter is famous for what it stands for alone: a short-word social media that lets people vent out feelings to the social world and their followers, being one of the go-to websites and the generation's app. The arrival of Fleets stories also gave users the option of being an "all-in-one" platform, particularly those who strongly prefer Twitter.
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Twitter's Fleets Bugs: Early Malfunctioning Lets People See Past 24 Hours
Twitter is currently facing bugs that pose serious concerns for user data and privacy because of the Fleets story function's discovery of allowing other users and followers to see expired stories. According to Gizmodo, Twitter's Fleets bugs allow people to "snoop" over other people's fleets.
Twitter user "cathode gay tube" (@donk_enby) initially revealed this information on the short word social media on Saturday, November 21, allowing the public to know the Fleets' alarming status. The user further discusses the Fleets' current status, particularly its data leaks to the public.
doing this or viewing the actual fleet via "media_url_https" does not trigger the read notification. there is a separate endpoint "/fleets/v1/mark_read" for marking things as read, but it appears to be optional :^) — cathode gay tube (@donk_enby) November 20, 2020
The "firehose" method allows people to see and download past Fleets from public accounts without triggering the "read" status, alert, or notification even when downloading. This data breach makes Instagram safer than Twitter as it locks out people after an initial download of one photo that also triggers the read or seen notification.
Twitter Fleets: Is It a Threat to Privacy?
That thing you didn’t Tweet but wanted to but didn’t but got so close but then were like nah. We have a place for that now—Fleets! Rolling out to everyone starting today. pic.twitter.com/auQAHXZMfH — Twitter (@Twitter) November 17, 2020
Twitter completes the most massive social media trio to have its story feature on the platform. The first to include this 24-hour expiring story function is Snapchat that mainly focuses on video and photo social expression. Instagram and Facebook follow the trend, with the platforms are the two of the largest social media, and Twitter is completing the trio.
Despite being public accounts, Fleets should protect the owner's wishes for the story to expire after 24 hours, as it was initially promoted and campaigned by Twitter. However, this is not the case, and Twitter is now facing fire over the "re-existing" stories that are accessible by anyone at any time.
Twitter promises to immediately fix the problem and remove the bug that allows this kind of activity to remain on the platform, particularly on its 24-hour Fleets stories.
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Written by Isaiah Alonzo
