Antipersona: Use Twitter from the perspective of another account

#1

Post by convulsive » Sun, May 22, 2016, 12:30 PM UTC

Antipersona: Use Twitter from the perspective of another account
antipersona.co

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#2

Post by brudgers » Sun, May 22, 2016, 1:29 PM UTC

Architecture document @ Github: https://github.com/agermanidis/Antipersona/blob/master/ARCHI...

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#3

Post by tetrep » Sun, May 22, 2016, 2:37 PM UTC

Neat!

I welcome people making applications such as these that show us just how public information is and how little we truly appreciate that fact (I assume many will find this creepy).

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#4

Post by fabiandesimone » Sun, May 22, 2016, 2:48 PM UTC

Finally. I've been wanting to see this for ages. It surprises me Twitter does not have this option.

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Sun, May 22, 2016, 2:52 PM UTC

Presumably this only works for public accounts.

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Post by return0 » Sun, May 22, 2016, 2:52 PM UTC

fabiandesimone wrote: post #4

Finally. I've been wanting to see this for ages. It surprises me Twitter does not have this option.

Apparently there was such a feature http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/26/now-you-can-see-twitter-the...

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 22, 2016, 2:53 PM UTC

fabiandesimone wrote: post #4

Finally. I've been wanting to see this for ages. It surprises me Twitter does not have this option.

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Post by southclaw » Sun, May 22, 2016, 3:02 PM UTC

fabiandesimone wrote: post #4

Finally. I've been wanting to see this for ages. It surprises me Twitter does not have this option.

Tweetdeck used to have this feature, there was a "Home" option on the row at the bottom of the user profile modal. I was disappointed when it was removed, it was a super useful feature and worked on desktop!

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Post by chtoric » Sun, May 22, 2016, 3:10 PM UTC

I think the problem here is that many people now use the practice to follow people and than mute them, so their tweets doesn't get shown in the feed (or he doesn't get notified if they like/retweet/comment them). So a person which officially follows millions of people could have muted them all and his feed is always empty. In my opinion is a good idea though.

Re: Antipersona: Use Twitter from the perspective of another account

#10

Post by corin_ » Sun, May 22, 2016, 3:11 PM UTC

tetrep wrote: post #3

Neat! I welcome people making applications such as these that show us just how public information is and how little we truly appreciate that fact (I assume many will find this creepy).

There's many areas to be concerned about regarding privacy in the 21st century, but not this.

> show us just how public information is

Information we choose to broadcast to the world on a platform designed for broadcasting to the world.

> find this creepy

Strangers can see my public list of who I follow, and can see the public posts of those people I follow. The people I follow can choose to make their posts not public if they wish, and I can choose to make my profile not public so that strangers can't see who I follow, if I wish. Not creepy, really.