This is an unlisted tweet

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Twitter's experiment in letting two people tweet together has a weird loophole. It's now possible to accidentally make an unlisted tweet. It's not private, but you can only see it if someone sends you a link. Or embeds it in a website.

Here is my unlisted tweet:

This is an unlisted tweet.

Try to find it in my timeline.
Try to search for it.

- Sean Hollister (@StarFire2258) July 14, 2022

These tweets do not appear in your timeline, and they do not appear if you search for them - and yet, they exist. People can even reply to them. And, if they do, those replies will appear in a Twitter search, and people can find the original tweet in a roundabout way.

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