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Richard1979
March 4th, 2010, 12:39 AM
I found this to be really really disturbing:
http://www.digit4l.net/2010/03/bt-follows-you/

How the hell did they find my Twitter account?
I was only trying to pay my bill...

lisati
March 4th, 2010, 12:45 AM
Could be a lucky guess by BT on the assumption that many of their customers will be Twitter users. On the other hand, did you click a link at Twitter to get to BT?

Richard1979
March 4th, 2010, 12:52 AM
Could be a lucky guess by BT on the assumption that many of their customers will be Twitter users. On the other hand, did you click a link at Twitter to get to BT?

Nope, I just tried to pay my bill and left it because it was late and I was tired.
Their site was a nightmare to use BTW.

Kai69
March 4th, 2010, 01:05 AM
what gets me is now BT wants you to follow them??? where to
Never used twitter I dont need to know what people have eaten or what bowel movements they had "sad really" ;)

chillicampari
March 4th, 2010, 01:06 AM
Twitter recently rolled out a new feature that will let people find you through your email address (bleh).

It's in settings so I'd check there to see if that's enabled. If not, they might have done a name search or something.

I'd block 'em. :p

Shpongle
March 4th, 2010, 01:09 AM
i'd block 'em. :p

+1

Jesus_Valdez
March 4th, 2010, 01:19 AM
Something similar happened to me a week ago, some company (national newspaper) send me a following request, I said no.

The only way that they may found out my email is because I used to send articles to a friend and they ask the senders email.

I found it disturbing.

Psumi
March 4th, 2010, 02:30 AM
Please tell me, who is BT?

solitaire
March 4th, 2010, 02:33 AM
@BTCare is very quick dealing with support via Twitter...
BT = Brittish Telecom (Main UK Telco)