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mindcrash ◴[] No.43804805[source]
Way back then I exposed massive data collection from Twitter by Google which made it possible to plot locations at which you used Twitter in Google Maps by simply putting your Twitter handle into the search field. Somehow they knew about these locations even when you opted out of sharing location data with Twitter (I checked) -- so this was only possible by Twitter privately providing this information to Google.

This "experiment" has since then been shut down, but exposing this and many other other forms of activism permanently has cost me my Twitter account, to the point that asking to reinstate it several times because I was permanently suspended for no valid reason led to X Support directly rerouting every attempt to appeal this decision into the digital trash can.

Let's say nothing surprises me anymore.

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1. monkeyfun ◴[] No.43805216[source]
Could you link to some of it? Sounds extremely interesting!
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2. mindcrash ◴[] No.43805298[source]
See screenshot: https://xcancel.com/kpcuk/status/601451439215353857

Do note that at first it was assumed just Chrome was involved, but then people started to message me that they also saw it when using the apps, Firefox, Safari and other browsers aswell.

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3. monkeyfun ◴[] No.43806221[source]
Thanks!
4. gruez ◴[] No.43808017[source]
Sounds like they showing geoip for tweets/profiles?
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5. mindcrash ◴[] No.43810514{3}[source]
IP isn't exposed by the Twitter API.

Also, sharing geolocation has been turned off by said user because reasons -- which make sense if you look at the location in the screenshot.

Geolocation has been turned off by me and others aswell.