Twitter Retains Old DMs Even After They Are Deleted

Twitter Retains Old DMs Even After They Are Deleted

Micro-blogging site Twitter has reportedly been retaining messages shared on its platform including deleted messages along with data shared and received from accounts that have been suspended or deactivated, the media reported.

"Security research worker Karan Saini found years-old messages in a file from an information archive obtained through the web site from accounts that were no longer on Twitter," TechCrunch reported on Saturday.

Earlier Saini claimed to have reported a similar bug, found a year ago that allowed him to use a since-deprecated application programming interface (API) to retrieve direct messages even after a message was deleted from both the sender and also the recipient.

Previously, Twitter allowed users to delete messages from the chat itself with the "unsend" feature however currently, users are only allowed to remove messages from their own account.

"We are looking into this further to make sure we've thought-about the whole scope of the issue," the report quoted a Twitter spokesperson as saying.