Twitter now shares your location

[droopla]

If you're promoting using X be aware that it shares your location !
It shows the country the posts are made from.
there is a setting that makes it more global and only show the region.

If you allowed a site , e.g. stripchat to post for you it shows the location of stripchat and not yours.

 

[Vixxen81]

Elon scrapped that when users were quick to point out most accounts were Russian and foreign adversary bots.

 

[KingMarti]

It's at the account level not at the post level.
Screen shot is from some random account on my feed today.
It cant be disabled in settings you can just choose country (default) or region.

 

[Vixxen81]

It's at the account level not at the post level.
Screen shot is from some random account on my feed today.
It cant be disabled in settings you can just choose country (default) or region.
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So the reports of rolling it back weren't true? I'm so confused. Did I get AI'd misinformation?

I don't use it as it has never once converted traffic for me.

 

[KingMarti]

So the reports of rolling it back weren't true? I'm so confused. Did I get AI'd misinformation?

I don't use it as it has never once converted traffic for me.

No idea, I saw a lot of people saying it was fake, saw people saying it was on the post, some people saying it was on the profile. I think someone somewhere misunderstood what it was which lead to people saying it's not real / rolled back etc when they were just looking in the wrong place.

 

[Vixxen81]

No idea, I saw a lot of people saying it was fake, saw people saying it was on the post, some people saying it was on the profile. I think someone somewhere misunderstood what it was which lead to people saying it's not real / rolled back etc when they were just looking in the wrong place.

I guess I have a hard time believing Elon would be so transparent but if it helps get rid of some of the problems, great!

 

[Dan N]

And a VPN doesn't change that?
I don't know, I haven't tried, but again, I'm not a popular ars to have some "fans" knocking on my rusty iron gate of my property...
"Let the dogs out..."

 

[LilyBlueBBW]

It is honestly sad that now we need a VPN in order to use twitter. If it ain't the orange man ruining something, it's got to be Elon. WTF.

 

[KingMarti]

And a VPN doesn't change that?
I don't know, I haven't tried, but again, I'm not a popular ars to have some "fans" knocking on my rusty iron gate of my property...
"Let the dogs out..."

As far as I know it's based off the IP where the account was created, so a vpn wouldnt change it.
IMO not really a huge deal, it's country, it isnt very specific, peoples accents give away more location information that the country an account was created in.