RIP Private Tweets: Twitter Circles Shutting Down on Oct. 31
UPDATE: Twitter says it will disable Circles on Oct. 31.
“After this date, you will not be able to create new posts that are limited to your Circle, nor will you be able to add people to your Circle,” the company now known as X said in a Help Center post.” You will, however, be able to remove people from your Circle, by unfollowing them.”
If you unfollow someone who is in one of your Circles, they will no longer be able to see your private Circle tweets. If you decide to follow them again down the line, they will still not have access to those Circle tweets. This suggests that Circle tweets will remain private after the program shuts down, but Twitter doesn’t offer any sort of clarity there. So if you’re really worried, you may want to delete those tweets.
On Twitter, all that Elon Musk has said about the shutdown thus far is to respond to a news post about it with the
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