Seeing people on #Birdsite go crazy over the @ situation on Mastodon DMs (don't go writing someone's handle out in an @ able way in DMs, people, unless you want them joining in)...

Do people realise that DMs on Twitter are not secure at all? If anyone with access to the backend is so inclined, like unprofessional billionaires or spies on the payroll, wants to have a look... They can because that sh*t isn't encrypted.

Here from Vice in April when the takeover saga began https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvneym/elon-musk-reading-twitter-dms-direct-messages

@emkingma

Seriously. If you need secure DMs, use Signal. Or if it Telegram that is more secure now? Otherwise it's fair game. Even Discord is plaintext.