Twitter and your privacy
This was a recurring issue with Fan History and I hope it doesn’t become a recurring issue here… but I feel it is time to mention it again.
Privacy.
Your Twitter profile is not private information. It is public information. Twitter makes it public and allows developers to access who you follow, who follows you, total number of tweets, the date you joined, what timezone you list, the location you list, your profile description, the number of lists you appear on, etc. If you do not want that information to be public, then delete your Twitter account and find some one else’s account that you can read along on.
(Twitter doesn’t share your password. It generally tries to keep your DMs private. It can nominally protect your Twitter stream. Everything else is pretty public.)
There are a whole bunch of programs that allow people to access this data in other forms. It may or may not appear in search results. (Mine data collecting might if I upload it.) This list is a place to start to find programs that do analytics analysis. The only way to make your data inaccessible to these applications is often to : 1. Never have created an account to begin with, 2. Hope the program pulls only real time information, not historical information, after you’ve subsequently deleted your Twitter account in order to avoid showing up in them.
