Antipersona: Use Twitter from the perspective of another account • Hacker News Board

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

#11

Post by meeper16 » Sun, May 22, 2016, 3:23 PM UTC

The fact that I think this is the worst idea in the world might be the very reason this could be huge. I thought friendster, myspace and facebook enabling people with 15min of fame by displaying their personal lives on the net was the worst idea in the world.

I did think the way Google handled search was the best idea in the world, so go figure.

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

#12

Post by mwsherman » Sun, May 22, 2016, 3:47 PM UTC

The best way use case I can think of is to view my own feed anonymously. It’s all public information (whom I follow etc) so I should not need to be auth’d.

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

#13

Post by ecesena » Sun, May 22, 2016, 4:21 PM UTC

That is really clever! I did something similar in the past but I stopped at "simulating" the timeline with at most 200 followers.

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

#14

Post by egypturnash » Sun, May 22, 2016, 4:25 PM UTC

Use twitter from someone else's perspective... modulo access to private accounts, and whatever filters they may have in their preferred client.

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

#15

Post by blfr » Sun, May 22, 2016, 4:57 PM UTC

This is a feature I always wanted from Twitter and the first time I regret not having an iPhone.

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

#16

Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 22, 2016, 5:13 PM UTC

egypturnash wrote: post #14

Use twitter from someone else's perspective... modulo access to private accounts, and whatever filters they may have in their preferred client.

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

#17

Post by javierprovecho » Sun, May 22, 2016, 5:45 PM UTC

nice idea! but...

why do you need to ask for permission to:

- publish tweets

- update my profile

?

A sentence saying "we'll not publish anything" is not enough. Better dont ask for permission in the twitter API or explain why do you need it.

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

#18

Post by MrQuincle » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

I think it's brilliant. We too often look at things from our own bubble. The deeper the experience will be the better. It should not be limited to Twitter to be even more effective. Of course it can be used in a way that someone thinks privacy is harmed. I personally would feel honoured if someone took the time to look at the world trough my eyes! I would normally need to write a book for that to get that much braintime from a person.

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

#19

Post by Futurebot » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

If this app supports seeing the chosen user's public messages from their perspective, it'd be a great way to experience what it's like for certain high-profile accounts that get trolled and dogpiled all the time.

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

#20

Post by throwaway87696 » Sun, May 22, 2016, 6:44 PM UTC

return0 wrote: post #6

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...

The rollout got stopped when a senior executive was following a porn star. I forget whether his wife actually saw that via this feature or whether he was simply just afraid of it happening, but the feature got cancelled.