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Twitter Fleets bug let some scrape videos even after expiration

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Compared to the likes of Facebook and Instagram, which Facebook owns, Twitter’s big changes are relatively more sporadic. It took years for it to extend its 140
Compared to the likes of Facebook and Instagram, which Facebook owns, Twitter’s big changes are relatively more sporadic. It took years for it to extend its 140-character limit and, to this day, still won’t let users edit their tweets. When it does push out changes, though, they’re often big, controversial, and rarely gets reverted. Its latest feature, an unabashed Snapchat and Instagram Stories clone, is the latest proof of that and so far it has been a disastrous launch, including a potential privacy-violating bug. We all knew it was coming ever since Twitter started testing its short-video format in Brazil months ago.

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