Twitter Might Share Your Tweets Geo-Location. Another Disaster In The Making?
According to a report on Read Write Web, there is a hint that twitter might just start sharing the Geographic locations of your tweets.
This is disastrous to say the least, whatever little privacy was left may completely disappear with this move, hopefully twitter should be smart enough to allow users to control whether or not their geo-locations should be shared with others, otherwise this will cause a much bigger backlash than the issue they created with @replies.
This information may no doubt come in pretty handy to developers and marketing guys, however it should not come at the cost of twitter users.
However as far as I am concerned, twitter would make a big mistake sharing that information without giving me a choice to not share it, if that happens it will hasten the end of twitter to no means.
It has grown immensely only on the power of its users, if they disappoint them and share such information without consent, I believe in addition to a backlash they may also start losing users at a rapid pace.
What are your thoughts about this decision by twitter? Would you want to share the geo-location of your tweets? Let me know.
Mitesh Ashar
May 27th, 2009 at 5:29 pm #
I completely agree with you.
This could not just result in loss of privacy, but could also be dangerous as a person’s location may be tracked by anyone per se, and the person tracking could very much be a prankster, hence putting the tweeter under possibly unwanted situations.
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Mac
May 28th, 2009 at 6:13 pm #
It does sound like a big threat but depends how much info they are giving away about the Geo location of the tweeter
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harry
August 21st, 2009 at 7:48 am #
Disaster? Disappearing privacy? What?
This is almost certainly going to be a very useful feature to some, and they’re *obviously* not going to force everyone to use it.
That would be completely stupid.
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