If you’re one of the about 10% of Twitter users that protect your tweets, watch out, because anybody can read them with a simple Google search.
The security hole, first reported by The L.A.
Times , reveals that, by just typing “site:twitter.com/*username*” (replacing *username* with the Twitter name of a protected account), you can see most or all of the tweets of an account.
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