The main thing the Samaritan's Radar Twitter App does is read the tweets made by people you follow using the normal Twitter API.
People seem surprised that their followers can read their tweets with a computer program. That is how Twitter works. The idea that the program might analyse the content of the tweets also seems to surprise people. The Irish Times reports "This would happen without the knowledge of the person who is tweeting."
Well, duh! Tweeting is just about the most public form of communication the Internet. Once you've made the tweet it's effectively set fee. Sure you can later delete the tweet but you cannot stop people keeping screenshots.
If you want privacy don't speak out loud in public.
People seem surprised that their followers can read their tweets with a computer program. That is how Twitter works. The idea that the program might analyse the content of the tweets also seems to surprise people. The Irish Times reports "This would happen without the knowledge of the person who is tweeting."
Well, duh! Tweeting is just about the most public form of communication the Internet. Once you've made the tweet it's effectively set fee. Sure you can later delete the tweet but you cannot stop people keeping screenshots.
If you want privacy don't speak out loud in public.
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