Social Media

Twitter accounts are public by default, but Twitter gives the option to create protected accounts, where only approved followers can …

Changing a Twitter account’s privacy setting between public and protected changes the visibility of past tweets. By inspecting …

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 looks at various kinds of privacy leakage on Twitter including birth dates, life events, and general knowledge about how the setting feature works.

People share a wide variety of information on Twitter, including the events in their lives, without understanding the size of their …