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Authors:
Yasuhiko Watanabe
Toshiki Nakano
Hiromu Nishimura
Yoshihiro Okada
Keywords: personal information; Twitter; SNS; mutual follows; privacy risk; unreal name account user.
Abstract:
Nowadays, many people use a Social Networking Service (SNS). Most SNS users are careful in protecting the privacy of personal information: name, age, gender, address, telephone number, birthday, etc. However, some SNS users disclose their personal information that can threaten their privacy and security even if they use unreal name accounts. In this study, we investigated Twitter users who gave likes to tweets disclosing submitters' personal information that potentially threatened submitters' privacy and security. We collected 318 tweets promising to disclose submitters' personal information. 30 tweets out of them were deleted in short order, specifically within a week after they were submitted. Then, we investigated the relations between the submitters of these 318 tweets and users who gave likes to them, taking into account whether or not the submitters deleted their tweets in short order. The results of our survey showed that the submitters followed most of the users mutually before the users gave likes to the tweets promising to disclose submitters' personal information whether or not the submitters deleted their tweets in short order. On the other hand, most of the users did not follow each other although they followed the same submitters and gave likes to their tweets.
Pages: 78 to 87
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2022. Used with permission.
Publication date: December 31, 2022
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2652