It never ceases to amaze me how much personal information people voluntarily disclose on Twitter. They talk about their jobs, health, children, spouses, interests, hobbies, when and where they’re going out or on vacation, and where they live.
The thing that most people don’t realize or blissfully ignore is all of this information is public. Anyone who has a Twitter account can see this information, and it wouldn’t take long to create a personal profile that would provide many details of who you are, what you’re doing and where you live.
For anyone who has any concern about their privacy, taking a hard look at what you tweet update would be a good and eye-opening exercise.
If you want to see how much information can be disclosed, check out I Can Stalk You, which determines the location of Twitter users who do tweets that include links to photographs. For example, let’s look at our friend @rocar86. He does this tweet:
I Can Stalk You determines the location of @rocar86:
And then provides a map:
So how did I Can Stalk You determine @rocar86′s location? It uses metadata from smartphones that encode the location of where photographs are taken. @rocar86 uploaded a photo using TwitPic, which provided I Can Stalk You with his location.
You Can Be Stalked On Twitter
The thing that most people don’t realize or blissfully ignore is all of this information is public. Anyone who has a Twitter account can see this information, and it wouldn’t take long to create a personal profile that would provide many details of who you are, what you’re doing and where you live.
For anyone who has any concern about their privacy, taking a hard look at what you tweet update would be a good and eye-opening exercise.
If you want to see how much information can be disclosed, check out I Can Stalk You, which determines the location of Twitter users who do tweets that include links to photographs. For example, let’s look at our friend @rocar86. He does this tweet:
I Can Stalk You determines the location of @rocar86:
And then provides a map:
So how did I Can Stalk You determine @rocar86′s location? It uses metadata from smartphones that encode the location of where photographs are taken. @rocar86 uploaded a photo using TwitPic, which provided I Can Stalk You with his location.