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Antipersona: Use Twitter from the perspective of another account
- brudgers 10y agoArchitecture document @ Github: https://github.com/agermanidis/Antipersona/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE.md https://github.com/agermanidis/Antipersona/blob/master/ARCHI...
- tetrep 10y agoNeat! 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).
- corin_ 10y agoThere'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.
- fabiandesimone 10y agoFinally. I've been wanting to see this for ages. It surprises me Twitter does not have this option.
- return0 10y agoApparently there was such a feature http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/26/now-you-can-see-twitter-the-way-i-see-twitter/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/26/now-you-can-see-twitter-the...
- throwaway87696 10y agoThe 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.
- majewsky 10y agoUnfollow wasn't an option?
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- southclaw 10y agoTweetdeck 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!
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoPresumably this only works for public accounts.
- chtoric 10y agoI 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.
- meeper16 10y agoThe 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.
- Ezhik 10y agoIt's all about you.
- mwsherman 10y agoThe 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.
- ecesena 10y agoThat is really clever! I did something similar in the past but I stopped at "simulating" the timeline with at most 200 followers.
- egypturnash 10y agoUse 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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- blfr 10y agoThis is a feature I always wanted from Twitter and the first time I regret not having an iPhone.
- javierprovecho 10y agonice 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.
- tacone 10y agoProbably because Twitter permissions granularity is very sparse. Last time I checked it was just read the whole account or read/write the whole account. Thus, to create private lists on your account they need the permission to write.
- MrQuincle 10y agoI 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.
- Futurebot 10y agoIf 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.
- darkstalker 10y agoWhat this probably does is enumerating the followings for the target user, then opening a filter stream [1] that watches a list of all of those. [1] https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/reference/post/statuses/filter https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/reference/post/statuses/fi...
- natdempk 10y agoThey actually use the lists/statuses endpoint, but it accomplishes essentially the same thing. Their architecture is described here: https://github.com/agermanidis/Antipersona/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE.md https://github.com/agermanidis/Antipersona/blob/master/ARCHI...
- kmfrk 10y agoEh, it probably doesn't hide the "disabled retweets", which can be a bit misleading. I doubt that's exposed to other users.
- alanfalcon 10y agoDownloaded the app and tried it. Links don't work, pictures don't show, there's no conversation view... This isn't becoming someone on Twitter, it's viewing a non-interactive and incomplete screenshot from over their shoulder. That makes it much, much less useful for its stated purpose. Too bad.
- gotchange 10y agoWhere's the demo or preview exactly? Do I have to install it on my iPhone to experience it first?
- mdrzn 10y agoI think the GIF on the right is self explanatory.
- dk8996 10y agoI wonder if brands will use this to monitor what their competitors are doing. Maybe even stealing potential leads or clients.
- tacone 10y agoThis is great and if lists are created on the user personal account, then they will be visible from the Twitter UI itself. Too bad is a mobile app.