If you use Gmail or Google Apps for email (and maybe others) you can use 4braham+secrettwitteracc...@gmail.com<4braham%2bsecrettwitteracc...@gmail.com>to sign up and unless you tell people what the string after the "+" no one will be able to find you.
Abraham On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 21:10, Scott Haneda <talkli...@newgeo.com> wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Doug Williams wrote: > > It is not possible to view a user's email address. Additionally, it is not >> possible to perform a user lookup based on an email address. >> > > This is not entirely true, though can not be done through the API. I had > friends find me on twitter, and for month, never knew why. It is quote > simple to load an email into gmail, and add that to twitter and it will look > up any user with that email. > > I wish this feature was able to be disabled. I have had to create a junk > email account in twitter, just so I have some privacy. I get that the posts > are not private, but I had an account that was not something I wanted people > to connect with me. That is too late now. > > No where on the twitter Web site is it explained that your email address > can be used as a way for users to locate you. > > I personally believe, this should be explained in detail on the join page > where you enter in your email address. And I should be able to opt out of > this feature. > -- > Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * > > -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
