The bug disabled the “Protect your Tweets” setting for users who had made some changes, like changing the email address associated with the handle, between
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Twitter has announced that it has fixed a bug on its Android app which made the protected tweets of users public if they made any changes to their accounts. The microblogging website said that if Android users made any changes, like changing the email associated with their accounts, between November 3,2014 and January 14,2019, the “Protect your Tweets” setting was disabled.
“You may have been impacted by this issue [with protected Tweets on Twitter for Android] if you had protected Tweets turned on in your settings, used Twitter for Android. iOS Users or those who use Twitter on web were not impacted.
