Twitter apologizes: An error caused some of our users to share the IOS with another party

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Twitter apologized for causing an error in sharing device location data iOS, As the social networking site said it had discovered that it inadvertently collects user site data iOS And share it with one of its trusted partners.

Twitter confirmed that the site's data has not been retained and deleted since then, and this error has affected users who have multiple accounts on Twitter application system IOS, And share the advantage of sharing their exact location in one account.

"We may have mistakenly collected the location data when you were using any other account (s) on the same device that you did not run the exact location feature for," the company said.

Twitter also said it mistakenly sent the user's site data to a "trusted partner." The company added that the shared location data were not "accurate" and "hidden" only to include data such as postal codes and fine cities within five kilometers.

The company explained that these site data can not be used to determine the address or to determine your exact movements.