Walid Magdy

Twitter has a Binary Privacy Setting, are Users Aware of How It Works?

Twitter accounts are public by default, but Twitter gives the option to create protected accounts, where only approved followers can see their tweets. The publicly visible …

From an Authentication Question to a Public Social Event: Characterizing Birthday Sharing on Twitter

Understanding Privacy Switching Behaviour on Twitter

Changing a Twitter account's privacy setting between public and protected changes the visibility of past tweets. By inspecting the privacy setting of more than 100K Twitter users …

Twitter Privacy

Twitter has a relatively simplistic privacy setting of an account being either public or protected, yet many people are still confused about how the settings work. The project …

Analysing Privacy Leakage of Life Events on Twitter

People share a wide variety of information on Twitter, including the events in their lives, without understanding the size of their audience. While some of these events can be …