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> Thanks to Qwerly integration, when you look at a Twitter @username - Mediasift sees more than just the Twitter profile. It sees @username who has bookmarks sa

by kmfrk 16y ago

> Thanks to Qwerly integration, when you look at a Twitter @username - Mediasift sees more than just the Twitter profile. It sees @username who has bookmarks saved online, plans for public events to attend, photos shared publicly with friends, check-ins to places around town and much more. Any of those are like columns in a spreadsheet of Twitter search results. Show me Tweets with any of the following keywords by people planning to attend event A and who have been to place B or C. Thanks to Qwerly, Twitter didn't just get a giant new developer search and filter feature - it got integration with a whole lot of other social services. Thank God I use different pseudonyms on the internet. That just gives me the willies. --- On another note, this may come at a very opportune time when the Obama 2012 is kicking into gear.

pstack 16y ago
I don't see a problem with it. If you use twitter, then you clearly don't have a problem living your life in the open and the price of being an attention whore is getting attention. For those of us who don't need to play-by-play our every thought and action in 140 character narration throughout the day to our imagined hoards of clingy worshippers, it won't be a problem. We likely don't use twitter or we don't use the same identity as we do elsewhere. I mean, as much as I'd kind of like to have all of my identities tied together, I don't like the potential problems that may draw. Therefore, I use a different identity at HN than I do at Slashdot which is different than on LinkedIn which is different than on Amazon, which is different than on Steam, which is different than on XBOX Live. Yeah, people like you and I are still open to having any anonymity data-mined out of us through aggregate manipulation -- but at least it's a simple layer of abstraction. In the meantime, if someone can get rich using the wealth of public information that every vapid college girl posting a thousand twitpics a night from her cell at the club puts up online, then more power to them.

by kmfrk 16y ago

pstack 16y ago

I don't see a problem with it. If you use twitter, then you clearly don't have a problem living your life in the open and the price of being an attention whore is getting attention. For those of us who don't need to play-by-play our every thought and action in 140 character narration throughout the day to our imagined hoards of clingy worshippers, it won't be a problem. We likely don't use twitter or we don't use the same identity as we do elsewhere. I mean, as much as I'd kind of like to have all of my identities tied together, I don't like the potential problems that may draw. Therefore, I use a different identity at HN than I do at Slashdot which is different than on LinkedIn which is different than on Amazon, which is different than on Steam, which is different than on XBOX Live. Yeah, people like you and I are still open to having any anonymity data-mined out of us through aggregate manipulation -- but at least it's a simple layer of abstraction. In the meantime, if someone can get rich using the wealth of public information that every vapid college girl posting a thousand twitpics a night from her cell at the club puts up online, then more power to them.