You probably at least have heard of Twitter from friends or the media. Chances are that you even have an account yourself, seeing as about 21,900,000 people have one today. Just like many social media site such as facebook or hyves, Twitter sounds quite harmless. People can join your account by what is called ‘following’ you, and you can of course follow others. This allows users to send and read other people’s posts, called tweets, about what they are up to. And there’s nothing wrong with occasionally checking what your friends or idols are doing, right?
Well hears the thing, it is not all as nice as it sounds. In fact, according to the Technological Professional Development unit from the University of Alberta, Twitter has privacy issues and is just another medium for voyeurism. I can understand that you are not very concerned about this, because you can decide for yourself whom you wish to follow and who is allowed to follow you. But the fighting fact is that people can be ‘stalked’ on Twitter, without the users knowing they are being followed.
I give you the site http://tweetstalk.com/, the simple way to stalk Twitter users without having to actually follow them as you would normally have to do. After signing in, the site will provide you an RSS feed, so you can stalk people using your RSS aggregator.
So the next time you are posting a tweet, think about what you are about to say. Do you really want to tell your stalker which party you are going to tonight?
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