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minus-square14th_cylon@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up7·13 days ago https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/politics/x-twitter-location-maga-controversy.html https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38m11218xo https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/x-erupts-platform-reveals-locations-035250157.html
minus-squarehesh@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-213 days agoThe location I get - any site can track your (apparent) location. But this has full name? Is that information you have to give to Twitter?
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·13 days agoMaybe you need to provide it to buy a checkmark
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·13 days agoYes you give that to Twitter and most people give their real name. But that data is not exposed, unless you want to. There was a big leak a couple of years ago when someone put massive dataset of Twitter on the internet.
The location I get - any site can track your (apparent) location. But this has full name? Is that information you have to give to Twitter?
Maybe you need to provide it to buy a checkmark
Yes you give that to Twitter and most people give their real name. But that data is not exposed, unless you want to. There was a big leak a couple of years ago when someone put massive dataset of Twitter on the internet.