Abuse of Twitter reply behaviour

jun 08 2009
jerakeenproposal for twitter bot that public announces position changes from, say dopplr.
jerakeenit just says '@blech has just landed in SFO'
jerakeenbut flags it as a reply somehow (handwave)
jerakeenso I only see the travel movements of people who I also follow
blechif you went to its page, you'd see everything, surely?
blechso it'd have to be opt-in
blechalthough depending on how it's fed it'd have to be opt-in anyway
blechstill, kind of a nice idea
jerakeensure, ignore the privacy angle
jerakeenI'm just wondering about clever things you can do with the twitter limited distribution thing
jerakeenalso, note that its utility would be _totally_ dependant on twitter not randomly changing things again
jerakeenyou can design all sorts of clever things using conceptually very fragile bits of 'API'
jerakeenwhich twitter can change at any moment.
jerakeenTWITTER IS NOT INFRASTRUCTURE
jerakeenetc etc
blechindeed
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