On Nov. 17, Twitter ripped off the Stories feature that Snapchat popularized and Instagram popularized even further. Twitter’s version is called Fleets and unfortunately, it didn’t take long for people to find a way to subvert the 24-hour expiration timer.
Twitter user donk_enby posted a thread that went viral over the weekend highlighting a bug in Twitter’s back-end that would allow users to view a Fleet well after it should have expired. What’s worse is that the user who posted the Fleet wouldn’t even see a notification that it had been viewed.
The good news? Twitter is aware of this and confirmed to TechCrunch that a fix would come in short order. Read more…
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