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Does this make the fact that it showed as Israel, was disabled, and is now "corrected", mean that this feature is good or bad?

Either we can trust all location data all the time, or we can trust none of it. We cannot expect Nikita Bier to swoop in on every suspicious tweet and try to educate us on IP range changes and DNS glitches or whatever.

Furthermore is it more likely that a small set of special accounts seemingly never collected location data on signup, or that for a small number of accounts X simply modified that data post-hoc?



> the fact that it showed as Israel

Please re-read. That never happened.


It may have happened. There are already many users saying their "created in" locations were incorrect. Thus the rest of my comment: trust is binary. We can either be 100% certain the data is correct, or we must assume it is never correct.


> trust is binary. We can either be 100% certain the data is correct, or we must assume it is never correct

You’re mixing up trust and faith.




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