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I remember way back when, you could find out on Twitter who was tweeting in your area. It was a pretty cool way to meet up with folks since the userbase was muc
by josegonzalez 4y ago
I remember way back when, you could find out on Twitter who was tweeting in your area. It was a pretty cool way to meet up with folks since the userbase was much smaller and a bit more focused.
I'd be a bit wary of this sort of thing now as its a "great" way to cyber-stalk folks :(
- ajmurmann 4y agoIt only shows rough location as set on your profile, right?
- josegonzalez 4y agoI feel like it used to show stuff like "you're in downtown manhattan" or "you're in washington heights", but it has been a decade or so....
- ajmurmann 4y agoAh, sorry I thought you were referring to this app's stalking potential
- MBCook 4y agoI tried looking that kind of thing up a few years ago. It was useless. Just bots spamming job postings, weather data, and other stuff like that for the city I’m in and any suburb within a large range. You had to hunt to find a single tweet from an actual person.
- bordercases 4y agoIt's funny, Twitter should know when a tweet comes from an third-party API connection or not. If that information exists, wouldn't it be a great way to heuristically exclude posts a bunch of bots (even if users who use e.g. Nitter would have posts excluded as well?)