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| 1 | - | Some experiment about relationship data that Twitter is attempting to infer from @-replies and DMs: |
| 1 | + | Some experiment about relationship data that Twitter is attempting to infer: |
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| 3 | 1. Use the Twitter website | |
| 4 | 2. Visit any user profile using the "Search" text box | |
| 5 | 3. Go to "Home" | |
| 6 | 4. Click in tweet input text box | |
| 7 | 5. Click in "Search" text box | |
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| 9 | Try this with people you don't interact with regularly, and with people to which you have (or had) a close relation. | |
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| 11 | For some people, the name of the person will be offered as an autocomplete suggestion in step 4 and 5, even before you have typed the first character (*). | |
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| 13 | For me, my ex-girlfriend is the only person for which Twitter is displaying this behavior. | |
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| 15 | Very creepy, because there is not explicit "relationship" field on Twitter, and the relationship is over for more than one year now. | |
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| 17 | (*) Searches saved using the "Saved Search" functionality are also appearing immediately in step 5, unrelated to the behavior that is discussed here. |
