…A lawsuit seeking class action status alleges that Twitter “surreptitiously eavesdrops on its users’ private direct message communications. As soon as a user sends a direct message, Twitter intercepts, reads and, at times, even alters the message.”…“Twitter’s algorithms will read through the Direct Message, identify the hyperlink, and replace it with its own custom link, thereby sending the person clicking on the link to Twitter’s analytics servers before passing them on to the original linked-to website,”…The lawsuit…alleges that Twitter is doing this to benefit its advertising business…According to the lawsuit, this interference represents a violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and California’s privacy law.  “We believe these claims are meritless and we intend to fight them,” said a Twitter spokesman.  The lawsuit…wants as much as $100 a day for each user whose privacy was violated…