Hackers can track you through just EIGHT tweets: Researchers find geolocation details can reveal both home and work addresses

Just eight tweets over the course of a day could reveal your location to hackers, researchers have warned. Experts at MIT and Oxford University found that far fewer location stamps than expected were needed to pinpoint someone's exact location. They warn it is'extremely simple for people with very little technical knowledge to find out where you work or live' Experts at MIT and Oxford University say far fewer locations than expected were needed. They warn it is'extremely simple for people with very little technical knowledge' to find out where you are. The location information comes from geographic coordinates automatically associated with the tweets.