Innovative Twitter Feed

posted on 11th March 2010 by Jon

An interesting little website has recently come to prominence using nothing more than an intelligent Twitter aggregator and a little clever thinking (not to mention some quite savvy PR).

The website has the provocative title of www.pleaserobme.com and it cleverly aggregates feeds from sites like Google Buzz and FourSquare where users are encouraged to make their precise whereabouts public. By doing this, they are effectively telling the world that their home is empty - a point that is made particularly poignant by the name of the site. The founders did not set this up to aid wannabe burglars, instead it was created to make the point that websites are holding ever more confidential and sensitive information and that this information can be used for both good and evil depending on the end-users motives.

Mashable do a really good review of the site and what it is capable of here: http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/pleaserobme/. Well worth a look.