‘Twitter retains old messages even after they are deleted’

SANFRANCISCO: 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, according to a report.

“Security researcher Karan Saini found years-old messages in a file from a data archive obtained through the website from accounts that were no longer on Twitter,” TechCrunch reported on Saturday.

Previously, Twitter allowed users to delete messages from the chat itself with the “unsend” feature, but now, users are only allowed to remove messages from their own account.

Twitter notes that anyone wanting to leave the service can have their account “deactivated and then deleted” and after a 30-day grace period. “But in our tests, we could recover direct messages from years ago,” the report said.

FACEBOOK DROPS PAGES LINKED TO MOSCOW

Three video-centric pages run by a viral video company - Maffick Media - have been suspended from Facebook because they failed to properly disclose their ties with Russia, the media reported. Ruptly, a subsidiary of Moscow-run RT (formerly Russia Today), has a 51% stake in Maffick Media.