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Read private twitter messages

On Twitter people can configure their settings so that only their friends see specific messages. There's a hack for Twitter that lets you see any message that has been sent privately to friends. To use this just enter the following URL in your browser:

http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/USERNAME.xml

where you replace USERNAME with the actual username of the Twitter user you want the messages for.

Not sure how long this will work until Twitter fixes it, but it's working now so get to work on writing an automated bot to download all these messages.
Rating: 33% positive, 9 total Votes
Categories: Twitter hack black hat cracking
Added: on Oct 25, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: twitter message hack hat black

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Dang, this totally works. All you need is one good user. You can get the twitter user names that they have gotten messages from, and just keep crawling from there. With the whole "5 degrees of separation" thing, you could completely grab messages from just about everyone. Very nice. Can't image this whole won't get fixed pretty quickly though.
– Added by rlansky on Oct 25, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Works! But I only saw today's messages. Any way to go back further?
– Added by an anonymous user on Apr 13, 2009 at 4:50 pm
It shows updates but it doesn't show actual tweets from private users. Anyone know a way to do that?
– Added by an anonymous user on Jun 14, 2009 at 10:29 pm
This doens't work anymore.
– Added by an anonymous user on Sep 07, 2009 at 2:07 am
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