Jameson Lopp, an American cypherpunk, software engineer, columnist, and Bitcoin advocate has recently posted a tweet about a Twitter privacy tip. He wrote, “When you copy a tweet to share it outside of Twitter, a unique tracking ID may be added to the URL. As such, Twitter can link your account with those you share tweets with. To stop this, delete the “?” and everything after it from the URL”.
Twitter privacy tip: when you copy a tweet to share it outside of Twitter, a unique tracking ID may be appended to the URL. As such, Twitter can associate your account with those you share tweets with. You can stop this by deleting the "?" and everything after it from the URL.
— Jameson Lopp (@lopp) August 21, 2022
To this, most of the followers replied and the tweet gained around 4k likes and around 946 retweets.
I feel like we need an extension to strip this data. Because: lazy.
— Ghost Guns Matter (@GhostGunsMatt3r) August 21, 2022
On Twitter, we simply, whenever unique content we like, we share it with others by simply clicking on the share option and sending it to others. However, we don’t realize the mechanisms behind it. That’s what Lopp explained in his tweet. He stated that whenever we share the tweet outside Twitter, an ID is also been sent along with the URL which can show your personal account link too. So for maintaining privacy, one should always delete the ‘? ‘ and everything after that in the URL.
Jameson Lopp is a cypherpunk, which means the one who advocates use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies for social and political betterment. He is also the co-founder and CTO of bitcoin security provider Casa.
