Twitter Circles Is Broken, Revealing Nudes Not Meant for the General Public

Twitter circles are supposed to be private spaces that you can only invite or make them public. The algorithm is pulling things from Twitter circles, whether they're private or not, and putting them in the for you feed - where this person's nudes ended up. But I don't think this person was proud of their boudoir photos and wanted to share some friends.

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The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has gone hot; Scotland's driverless busses; NASA launches new pollution tracker, gets new director; Google's Bard to bring transparency to their black box; Twitter Circles are broken; Iceberg Slim; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Succession; Picard; Bye, HBO, you're now MAX: Star Wars news; Skate Punk; playlists aka mix-tapes; YouTube Premium perks; weather apps suck; Schmigadoon!; the Mandalorian; PayPal scam; don't login to company assets after leaving the company; Layoffs.FYI; OpenAI bug bounties; Juice Jacking is crap; cutting the cord, but what about baseball?

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