It seems a hole has been found in Twitter, the popular micro blogging service, that allows people to see private messages you send to other users.

Valleywag is sharing information that came from a Hungarian website that it is fairly easy to see all the messages on a person’s Twitter account, including those that are private between members.  It is sadly extremely easy to pull off also.

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

That’s it, all you need to do is put in the name of the user, without the brackets,and you can see their entire message stream.

This is a good chance to remind all of our readers that you should never trust your personal data on mainstream websites.  It is also a good time to remind you that you should also have strong passwords.  With recent stories of how pop singer Miley Cyrus had her MySpace account hacked into, and most famously Governor Sarah Palin had her personal emails revealed, you can never have strong enough security.

The safest thing to think is that if you put something on a site such as Twitter, it is not going to be safe, and someone will find a way to view it eventually.