Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Twitter introduces new feature to prevent from unwanted messages

Twitter allowed matching phone numbers of users with their twitter accounts. Security researcher Ibrahim Balic pointed out this security flaw in December 2019 but came out now.

Twitter on Monday said it is rolling out a filter that will hide away unwanted direct messages, providing a new tool to stymie abuse. Twitter users who receive direct messages from people they don’t follow on the platform will be able to have such missives automatically routed to a secondary folder. “Unwanted messages aren’t fun,” … Read more