The Thing I Didn't Build (opens in new tab)

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18 pointsalsothings12y ago6 comments

6 comments

He proves a point and establishes a market by showing a google search query. I don't think this is valuable since we all know Google is building up your personal filter bubble. Therefore it's quite logic he gets suggestions for unprotected tweets, he's already investigating in that field. I don't get these results. But this might change now that i read his article and composed a comment on that matter.

Doing a google search is not a proof for anything anymore, because they are perfectly tailored for you. I wonder why people still do it.

chatman12y ago

Twitter is not meant for protected accounts, rather for broadcast. Such users are far too less. Perhaps they are so dumb (to have protected tweets) that they deserved to be looked at, so that they can run away to their facebook where they must've originally come from.

sluu9912y ago

The same thing can be built for facebook, though.

rvschuilenburg12y ago

Next: facebook 'private' photos

lucaspiller12y ago

This would probably be legally easier. As long as you have the URL you can access them, so you are more of a directory than a provider of the data.

E.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=hphotos-ak-frc1

alsothingsOP12y ago

tl;dr - nothing on the web is private.

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