MILLENNIAL PHONE BOOK
       
       
       
       
       Overview
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       Stats
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       - Project started: 2014 (?)
       - Project status: Done
       - Medium/tools: Twitter4j, Java, Processing, On-demand book printning
       
       
       About
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       Long before people gasped in horror as their names, email addresses
       and phone numbers were regularily leaked from or stolen by , people
       regularily posted the very same information online, publically, for
       all to see. I first noticed this happening on Twitter sometime around
       2014 (?). People would post a tweet with their phone number and a
       message along the lines of “this is my new number. add me!”. The
       behavior makes sense. You get a new phone number and need a batch way
       to tell your friends to update their address books. Presumably, most
       of these friends also have Twitter accounts. So you post the
       Tweet. The intentions are innoculous, but the consequences are…
       disasterous? Maybe. Anyways. I saw this happening and thought it was a
       naive behavior. Looking back, I regret not using my powers more
       benevolently. I could have made a bot that identified these tweets and
       said something like “are you sure you want to post this information
       online?”. Instead, I creating a scraper to search, find, and store the
       phone numbers. The scraper collected numbers for a numebr of months,
       maybe a year. I built a web app called “Royalist” that acted as a API
       into the dataset. A person could enter a Twitter user name and see the
       person’s phone number. Like a yellow pages, but online! I gave
       Royalist the slogan: “the internet phone index”. The web app was
       pretty sophisticated. It was built using Play Framework and integrated
       with the Twitter API so a person could join the phone book and
       participate in the whole phenom, while also inviting others to do the
       same. Later, I took the data in a more low-tech direction. I designed
       and printed a “Millenial Phone Book,” which is basically just a list
       of the phone numbers and the user names they are associated with. The
       cool bit there is that I used Processing to programmatically typeset
       the pages. I am unsure what this whole endeavor amounts to. I guess it
       was just my way of exploring some things that were happening around
       me.
       
       
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