[R] twitteR location? - heading off topic

[S Ellison]

 > > That worked but how do you get the location of one particular tweet.
> > 
> You are teetering on the edge of potential stalking here, 
> since locating a specific tweet implies locating a specific 
> individual. In some countries that can be a problem.

Location is currently disabled by default in twitter; a user must choose to enable it for location to be available. That would constitute a clear decision to publish location. No sensible judiciary would regard it as an offence, of itself, to access an individual's location when the individual has themselves has chosen to publish it to a public place such as the web. 

But intent matters: as they say, it's what you do with it that counts. You might land yourself with having to defend the intent. So you're not wrong to raise the issue.


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