While traditionally most Twitter users want their tweets to reach the widest audience possible, Twitter Circle was a great way for users to downsize the visibility of certain tweets to a curated few.
The idea behind which was to allow for a more ‘personal’ connection. Here you could express your true feelings to a trusted few, and generally find a safe space within the platform to connect with others.
In practice, it was also a great way for people to complain about spouses, crap on work colleagues, tell some risque jokes that wouldn’t fly on the main timeline, and occasionally send out artful unclothed images of themselves.
How do I know this? Because a recent bug has reportedly seen a number of those private conversations appearing on the ‘For You’ timeline of unintended recipients – even users that have previously been blocked by members of the circle.
