Abuse of Twitter reply behaviour
| jerakeen |
proposal for twitter bot that public announces position changes from, say dopplr.
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| jerakeen |
it just says '@blech has just landed in SFO'
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| jerakeen |
but flags it as a reply somehow (handwave)
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| jerakeen |
so I only see the travel movements of people who I also follow
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| blech |
if you went to its page, you'd see everything, surely?
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| blech |
so it'd have to be opt-in
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| blech |
although depending on how it's fed it'd have to be opt-in anyway
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| blech |
still, kind of a nice idea
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| jerakeen |
sure, ignore the privacy angle
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| jerakeen |
I'm just wondering about clever things you can do with the twitter limited distribution thing
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| jerakeen |
also, note that its utility would be _totally_ dependant on twitter not randomly changing things again
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| jerakeen |
you can design all sorts of clever things using conceptually very fragile bits of 'API'
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| jerakeen |
which twitter can change at any moment.
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| jerakeen |
TWITTER IS NOT INFRASTRUCTURE
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| jerakeen |
etc etc
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| blech |
indeed |