Cybersecurity professionals have uncovered vulnerabilities that cancelled the anonymity associated with Twitter's new Tip Jar feature. Researchers found the new payment feature, which links Twitter accounts to online payment platforms, carried system errors that would reveal the tipper's home address and email address associated with their PayPal account. Twitter has since announced that it will update its in-application notification to clarify Tip Jar "may share information about people sending tips to one another."
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