Your Twitter friends can now ‘spy’ on your activity

Twitter has introduced “Activity” – a feature that does the following:

New! Activity

View favorites, follows, retweets and more by people you follow in Activity.

View your mentions, tweets that were retweeted and more in @.

In other words, you can see what those that you follow are doing and vice versa: they can view yours!

There is no way to turn the feature off. Is Twitter going the way of Facebook with regards to privacy?

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5 Responses to “Your Twitter friends can now ‘spy’ on your activity”
  1. Tia Wood says:

    Where is this feature at?

  2. RH says:

    How would it violate privacy none of this stuff is private. Outside of private messages and private accounts you can read anything anyone has out there. It might take a little longer but I think the real key is that if people don’t want the public having access to something, don’t make it public.

  3. Lucius "Guns" Fabrice says:

    Tia – Not all accounts have the feature currently. It’s been rolled out, however.

    RH – There are various levels of privacy: e.g. seeing what you favorited or whom you just added on twitter is parts of the privacy that exists no more.

  4. RH says:

    Ok I see what you mean.

  5. Lucius "Guns" Fabrice says:

    TechCrunch posted about it 3 hours ago: http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/08/twitter-activity-rollout/

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