The 'Creepy' app

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The name of this app is 'Creepy'..! Don't think it as a foolish name for an app, because this one is really creepy..!!

In today's world, we live more in the digital world than in the real world. For us, our 'avatar' is more important than our real selves. Its a harsh fact but we have to admit it.

So living in this digital world, we leave out loads n loads of our personal information accessible to anyone on the internet. We do not think it as a 'no biggie', but you would be amazed or horrified to be more precise, to know how these small 'no biggie' details can be used against you...!

This app for desktop computers called 'Creepy' is a “geo-location information aggregator”. i.e, using a this a person can know where all the places you had been and can hence easily find out the place where you would likely to be..!

Now, you might be going "oh shit..!!"..:) How does it do that..??


Well, we constantly upload pictures and share them with the world. From these pics, its possible to extract geo-location information .......

• tweets have geolocations. ....
• Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device
• Place (geographical name) derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates using geonames.com
• Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface.The less accurate source , a corner of the bounding box is selected randomly.
• Geolocation information accessible through image hosting services API
• EXIF tags from the photos posted.

• So 'Creepy' sniffs all these and much more details from the web and presents it in a map marking all the locations your target has been hence making it easy to find out the places you frequently visit, the places you likely to be found..!

If you are stalking somebody, then its a must have app..:p You can download it here.. http://ilektrojohn.github.com/creepy/



To prevent 'creepy' from stalk you, some simple tips...

• better not to reveal too much of your personal details.
• do not post anything that you dont want others to know.
• Don't try to be in a 'limbo' when there is so much on the real world.

Most influential Tweeter....???

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Who do you think is the most influential tweeter of all....??
Lady Gaga with 6,178,524 followers...?? britneyspears with 5,895,661 followers...?? Kimkaradarshian with 4,749,614 follower...?? Sachin Tendulkar..?? Oprah..?? If you think they are the most influential tweeters, sorry to disappoint you but you are wrong...!!


Just because all these celebrities have millions of followers, doesn't mean they are the most influential people on twitter.According to researchers it depends on the topic on which, one tweets about.


Most of the people may be unaware ( even I didn't know till I came across this website) that there is a website which gives you the information regarding the most influential people tweeting on the hottest topics of the day. I know its very interesting......so here is the link..
http://pulseofthetweeters.com/

The website was created in the laboratory of Alok Choudhary, John G. Searle Professor and chair of electrical engineering and computer science at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.Actually the mother of this website is a thesis project of Ph.D. candidate Ramanathan Narayanan.

Question may arise, how does the website work...? A special algorithm created for the website does the job of ranking the most influential tweeters of the day.The algorithm for the website combines dynamic data mining, sentiment analysis and network analysis in real time.Not only that, researchers have made this algorithm a bit intelligent....!! The algorithm can also tell you whether their tweets are positive, negative or neutral. It also offers related topics to explore.

Let me explain it with a simple example..... Suppose you like cricket, the website will list out the most influential twitter users who constantly tweet about cricket and also have a following of cricket fans who tweet about the same.

Narayan tries to explain the same with an another example ""If someone from BP is tweeting about the oil spill, for example, his opinions are likely to carry much more weight and be of much greater interest than those of Ashton Kutcher, who has a legion of followers."

Some of really good things about this system or algorithm are....

• It can also filter out spam
• It is almost completely automated and requires a very minimal amount of human work
• It has been very successful in providing really useful choices for the people who are interested in twitter

well finally.... its not some website which provides some info about the twitter users...but it has more applications ...!!! According to the researchers

• The website could be used by companies who want to know what people are saying about their product
• They could find out if top influencers are saying positive, negative or neutral things about their product, and that may have a lot of implications.
• In the future, the website could track many more topics, including those that are not trending on Twitter.

So if you want to be a highly influential twitter user, then keep in mind... "its not the no. of followers that matter but the topic you tweet about..!!"