[clug] [OT] Broadband clangers

Christopher Yeoh cyeoh at ozlabs.org
Tue Aug 17 19:57:18 MDT 2010


On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:37:02 +1000
Robert Edwards <bob at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> On 17/08/10 16:18, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:29:22 +1000
> > Robert Edwards<bob at cs.anu.edu.au>  wrote:
> >
> > If you're twittering it, then you're not going to care about anyone
> > seeing it.
> >
> > Chris
> 
> It's not the tweets. Nobody cares what you tweet (other than the other
> twits). It's the metadata. And, in particular, the authentication
> token you are sending across an international boundary (and into the
> U.S. in particular). Which IP address were you using. When did you
> send it. Who were you following. Who was following you. What platform
> were you using. etc. etc.

Sure there is some metadata they get along with it, but:

> When did you send it. Who were you following. Who was following you.
> What platform were you using. etc. etc.

Twitter already makes these publicly available to all, and users
(should) realise this.

Lots of third parties using the above data for various reasons.

Believe it or not increasingly people are also sending geo location
data along with their tweets. You'd probably hate foursquare even
more :-)

Chris
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cyeoh at ozlabs.org


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