The next time you post a tweet about being ‘
at home’ from your mobile device with locations services enabled, you should be wearing a worried sign rather than a smile. Confused? We give you a reason to do so.
WeKnowYourHouse.com, a social networking privacy experiment throws open the profiles and locations of folks who tweet with their location services ON and even displays the actual location in the world on a Google Map.
Having seen a
similar experiment with Facebook, users may want to ring the bell of being careful while tweeting the next time. With all legit work being done through this experiment, it’s surprising when the Twitter Search API simply gives away the recent tweets that match the search query, in this case being ‘
at home’, where the result contains all recent posts that contain the words ‘
at home’. Having done this, the posts with location data (latitude and longitude) are filtered and later geocoded into human readable addresses which can be easily pointed out on a Google world map.
