Old tweets reveal hidden secrets
Researchers from the Foundation for Research and Technology in Greece and the University of Illinois found all this out after writing a tool called LPAuditor. The software mines publicly available tweet data that anyone can download from Twitter via its application programming interface (API).
Using the tool, they analyzed the metadata – hidden information about a tweet embedded in the post – to identify users’ homes, workplaces and sensitive places that they visited. In dozens of cases, they were also able to identify the users behind anonymous Twitter accounts.
well, they sure as shyt didnt find anything on me, I have neither sent or received a single tweet yet. and refuse to for liberal reasons.
I dont even have the kind of gadget to do it. Im too cheap and busy attending to my doggies, a part mastiff and a golden retriever who love to spar in the backyard almost as much as I love to watch them enjoy the zest of the REAL world.
Im a luddite and proud of it.
I get a lot of strange looks when I tell people that I don’t even have a cell phone.
I had two of them around 20 years ago. One was troublesome from almost the very start and died after about 2 years. I did some serious damage to the second one when the pay-as-you-go service I was using fiddled me out of some phone time and, consequently, money.
I never got another one since then. I simply couldn’t justify the expense in having one, nor was there anyone, others than my parents, that I particularly wanted to talk to with one. I use the regular telephone service to place my business calls and that’s served me well over the years.
As for the so-called smartphones, why on earth would I need one? I have Internet access when I’m at home or at the house I inherited and, if I’m in transit between those two places, I have no need for it (nor should I when I’m driving).
If I want cheap long-distance communications, I can always activate my ham station if propagation conditions are good or if I can get onto a satellite.
LIke you, I’m somewhat of a luddite. I’ve learned to make do with what I’ve got.
I’m like you. If someone wants to talk to me I have a home phone and an email address. Internet with a screen and keyboard at home and the public library if I’m out of town. We have the most basic of cell phones we take with us when traveling to use in emergencies. When I worked I also had an office number.
I have a flip phone from which I make and receive phone calls.
I don’t tweet. I don’t Fackebook. I use duck duck go. My Apple phone gets little use … texting cat videos to family members. Google knows what temp. I keep my house thru the data it scoops up from my Nest thermostat … but since my house is freezing in the winter and sweltering in the summer … they think I’m a compliant Global warmist reducing my carbon footprint … hint: I’m desperately trying to stay out of PG&E’s 3rd PUNISHING tier of gas and electricity rates. The RICO Act violations between energy monopoly PG&E and the CA State Govt. must be prosecuted in order to return cheap, plentiful, energy to the citizens. The punishment of ratepayers in the name of global warming is quite insane … and illegal. And immoral.
Been pretty obvious for years now, that anyone who is still on Twitter, or Facebook, is an idiot.
That’s a feature, not a bug.