Anyone who wants to share something on Twitter that, as an exception, is not saved for eternity, has recently been able to do so with special, fleeting tweets: These contents called “fleets” (“fleeting tweet”: fleeting tweet) can text , Picture and video and should disappear after 24 hours. With this, the company wants to encourage particularly reluctant users to tweet. It’s just stupid that a bug apparently made the Fleets visible from afar even after this period, as has now become known. Twitter has now fixed the error.

Free access was possible via Twitter API A Twitter user published his discovery in several tweets on Friday. According to this, he was able to read fleets from public Twitter accounts after their expiration date with a developer app via the Twitter API. In addition, in this case there was no notification to the author of a fleet that it had been read and by whom (which is usually communicated). The discovery of the Twitter user was first reported by TechCrunch .

A Twitter spokesman confirmed according to the report TechCrunch reported the error, but did not go into detail. It was noticed that the contents of Fleets were still accessible after 24 hours via a “technical workaround”. TechCrunch was able to understand the readout of the fleets – apparently the gap has now been closed, because access via this API no longer works since Sunday, confirms The Verge .

Fleets stay for up to 30 Days saved However, the Twitter spokesman told TechCrunch also that fleets would disappear after 24 hours, but are still stored at the company. Fleets are kept on the Twitter servers for up to 30 days. Should one be informed of a rule violation by a Fleet content, this period could also be extended.

Twitter had recently made the fleeting tweets available worldwide. The idea is not new and Twitter is getting involved with it relatively late: Snapchat ‘invented’ the volatile content several years ago, Instagram, which belongs to Facebook, took over the suggestion for its function called “Stories” soon afterwards. The subsequent deletion of messages that have already been sent is now integrated in various messaging apps.

(tiw)