Abuse of Twitter reply behaviour
created 08 June 2009 in notes.
| jerakeen | proposal for twitter bot that public announces position changes from, say dopplr. |
| jerakeen | it just says '@blech has just landed in SFO' |
| jerakeen | but flags it as a reply somehow (handwave) |
| jerakeen | so I only see the travel movements of people who I also follow |
| blech | if you went to its page, you'd see everything, surely? |
| blech | so it'd have to be opt-in |
| blech | although depending on how it's fed it'd have to be opt-in anyway |
| blech | still, kind of a nice idea |
| jerakeen | sure, ignore the privacy angle |
| jerakeen | I'm just wondering about clever things you can do with the twitter limited distribution thing |
| jerakeen | also, note that its utility would be _totally_ dependant on twitter not randomly changing things again |
| jerakeen | you can design all sorts of clever things using conceptually very fragile bits of 'API' |
| jerakeen | which twitter can change at any moment. |
| jerakeen | TWITTER IS NOT INFRASTRUCTURE |
| jerakeen | etc etc |
| blech | indeed |