The tip jar function will add a small icon next to a user’s profile with a drop-down menu for payment providers such as PayPal and Venmo.
However, the feature has come under fire for exposing personal information, such as email addresses.
Because the payment is made through external systems, some users have noticed that tipping a PayPal account notifies the recipient of the sender’s postal address.
After the issue was highlighted by security expert Rachel Tobac, Twitter thanked her for the “good catch” but said they could not control how PayPal handled the information.
15 days ago I tweeted a thread including my concern about the just then announced PayPal Tip Jar Twitter integration and how email, physical address, and more might be visible during the tipping flow in receipts, which Twitter users might not realize during tipping. https://t.co/LnKtop8hFL
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