Society - Written Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Jeff DeChambeau - 3 Comments

The dangers of GeoTweeting: PleaseRobMe.com

Last summer, while on vacation, a blogger tweeted about being away from home–tweets that he believed led to burglars breaking into his house and robbing him while on his vacation. While there was never any conclusive evidence that he was targeted based on the tweet, it remains an amusing theory, and the basis for a new mashup website, PleaseRobMe.com. The website mashes up past and present tweets and other geolocated information to determine if a current user is at home or not–and by extension, if their home is a good burglary target–in an effort to “raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about how they use services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz etc.” Continue…