{"id":62257,"date":"2014-03-11T01:09:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T23:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=62257"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:49:47","slug":"twitter-patches-protected-tweets-sms-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/twitter-patches-protected-tweets-sms-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter patches protected tweets SMS bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SMS bug that allowed unauthorized <a title=\"Twitter news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/twitter\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> followers to receive protected tweets via SMS or push notifications has been fixed. The bug <strong>affected 93,788 Twitter accounts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Since November 2013, some tweets from <a title=\"About public and protected Tweets\" href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/14016-about-public-and-protected-tweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protected accounts<\/a> were accidentally sent to &#8220;non-approved&#8221; followers. Twitter users who restrict access to their profiles have been contacted by the company alerting them of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The bug has since been patched and Twitter has &#8220;taken steps to protect against this kind of bug in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2014\/sms-follow-issue-and-fix-for-protected-accounts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/spanish-programmers-hack-whatsapp-to-send-fake-messages\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spanish programmers hack WhatsApp to send fake messages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/penultimate-windows-xp-update-on-march-11\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Penultimate Windows XP update on March 11<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/retrieve-deleted-snapchat-photos\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to retrieve deleted Snapchat photos on Android<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SMS bug that allowed unauthorized Twitter followers to receive protected tweets via SMS or push notifications has been fixed. The bug affected 93,788 Twitter accounts. Since November 2013, some tweets from protected accounts were accidentally sent to &#8220;non-approved&#8221; followers. Twitter users who restrict access to their profiles have been contacted by the company alerting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/twitter-patches-protected-tweets-sms-bug\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twitter patches protected tweets SMS bug&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":62260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2358],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-62257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontwitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331171,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62257\/revisions\/331171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62257"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=62257"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=62257"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=62257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}