Twitter Bug: View Friend-Only Private Updates
On twitter, I’m following someone who I cannot un-follow due to a bug in Twitter. Why? Because said person changed their settings I’m only giving updates to friends – I see the message "I’m only giving updates to friends.". Visiting the person’s home page, I cannot see the Follow/Unfollow button because the interface only lets me ask the person to allow me to see his updates.
But I can easily see his updates.
Here is how: browse twitter using a mobile phone. Yes the mobile interface shows you these "private" updates but the web interface shows me the message "I’m only giving updates to friends.". I discovered this bug by accident while browsing using my mobile phone, but using a couple of extensions, you can pull off this trick in Firefox.
The screenshot below illustrates the bug. It’s basically the mobile version and the full normal version of twitter side by side. The lines map corresponding updates, with the yellow/orange one highlighting the bug.
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I’ve filed a bug report with twitter.
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