False alarm: Google not indexing Twitter's protected tweets

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Tue, 10/20/2009 - 12:08am

Despite an L.A. Times report that a Twitter security hole allows protected tweets to be indexed by Google, only tweets that were, at some time, public are being indexed.



 

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