:: Deepquest ::

If you’re one of the about 10% of Twitter users that protect your tweets, watch out, because anybody can read them with a simple Google search.

The security hole, first reported by The L.A. Times, reveals that, by just typing “site:twitter.com/*username*” (replacing *username* with the Twitter name of a protected account), you can see most or all of the tweets of an account. And it’s already being used to see the tweets of Bill Clinton, and others.

Apparently, while you can’t directly access a protected Twitter account, Google’s crawling bots can pass right by without any problem. By looking at the Google results, you can get a sense of what that person is tweeting about.