John
10-16-2010, 01:57 PM
Twitter has cut links with a website that can pinpoint exactly where celebrities are in the world days before it is due to go live.
JustSpotted shows users where their favourite stars were last seen in public by accessing tweets and using information from Facebook and other social media sites.
Fans will be able to know "what any celebrity is up to right now".
Opponents have slammed JustSpotted as a dangerous tool for stalking the rich and famous.
Actor Jim Carrey voiced his anger at Twitter's association with JustSpotted via a tweet, saying: "Twitter! Giving away the whereabouts of your patrons starts a dangerous (precedent)."
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford told The Independent: "It's another step in the direction of Big Brother society.
"There are a lot of very funny people out there. If they are going to be able to easily know where celebrities are then there is a chance it puts them at risk."
JustSpotted is due to be launched on Tuesday, but Twitter has decided to sever its connection with the site.
The micro-blogging site had agreed to supply the Scoopler search engine with a so-called "fire hose" feed of public tweets.
Scoopler has since re-branded itself as JustSpotted.
"JustSpotted.com is not the product we licensed, and we have terminated their agreement," a Twitter spokesman said.
But JustSpotted's co-founder, AJ Asver, told The Hollywood Reporter he did not need access to Twitter's fire hose in order to track celebrities.
"We were actually going to call Twitter and end the deal anyway because we're using publicly available applications and websites to organise Twitter data," he said.
The JustSpotted concept is similar to Gawker Stalker Maps, which ceased being as a map-based service in 2006.
It now operates as a blog with user-submitted photos and tip-offs.
Source - Yahoo News & Technology.
JustSpotted shows users where their favourite stars were last seen in public by accessing tweets and using information from Facebook and other social media sites.
Fans will be able to know "what any celebrity is up to right now".
Opponents have slammed JustSpotted as a dangerous tool for stalking the rich and famous.
Actor Jim Carrey voiced his anger at Twitter's association with JustSpotted via a tweet, saying: "Twitter! Giving away the whereabouts of your patrons starts a dangerous (precedent)."
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford told The Independent: "It's another step in the direction of Big Brother society.
"There are a lot of very funny people out there. If they are going to be able to easily know where celebrities are then there is a chance it puts them at risk."
JustSpotted is due to be launched on Tuesday, but Twitter has decided to sever its connection with the site.
The micro-blogging site had agreed to supply the Scoopler search engine with a so-called "fire hose" feed of public tweets.
Scoopler has since re-branded itself as JustSpotted.
"JustSpotted.com is not the product we licensed, and we have terminated their agreement," a Twitter spokesman said.
But JustSpotted's co-founder, AJ Asver, told The Hollywood Reporter he did not need access to Twitter's fire hose in order to track celebrities.
"We were actually going to call Twitter and end the deal anyway because we're using publicly available applications and websites to organise Twitter data," he said.
The JustSpotted concept is similar to Gawker Stalker Maps, which ceased being as a map-based service in 2006.
It now operates as a blog with user-submitted photos and tip-offs.
Source - Yahoo News & Technology.