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Twitter said it had not found any cases where diagnostic messages had been delivered to the wrong party. But, the microblogging service "can not conclusively confirm that this has not happened", so it informs "less than 1% of people on Twitter" who may have been affected.

Twitter Friday ad He fixed a bug concerning one of his APIs, which may have sent private direct messages and protected tweets to third-party developers who were not supposed to receive them.

Twitter did not discover instances where message messages or protected tweets were sent to the wrong developer. But the microblogging service "can not conclusively confirm that this has not happened", so it informs "less than 1% of people on Twitter" who may have been affected.

Twitter now has more than 336 million active users per month, which means that more than 3 million people are potentially affected. The company informs individuals via an in-app review and on Twitter.com.

The bug has affected Twitter Account Activity API, used by registered developers to create customer service tools. He had been present for over a year, from May 2017 to September 10, when Twitter found him. The company said it corrected the defect "a few hours after it was discovered".

"If you interacted with an account or a company on Twitter that was relying on a developer using AAAPI to provide its services, the bug may have caused some of these interactions to be inadvertently sent to another registered developer," he said. Twitter. "Based on our initial analysis, a complex series of technical circumstances must have occurred at the same time for this bug to result in the final sharing of account information with the wrong source."

The bug only affects your messages and interactions with companies that use Twitter "for things like customer service" – not all your DMs, the company said.

Twitter said his investigation was ongoing. At the same time, the company works with developers to make sure they remove all the information they should not have.

"We are really sorry that this happened," wrote Twitter. "We recognize and appreciate the trust you place in us and we commit ourselves to gain that trust every day."