Twitter users can now tag friends in photos

Berlin - Twitter users can now tag their friends in pictures.

Long available in other social networks, the new service is part of an update of the Twitter app for iOS and Android that is now available.

Users can tag up to 10 friends in a picture and still have 140 characters to write a tweet, says the company.

Anyone who doesn’t want to be tagged can remove the label later or even block tags entirely.

The update also allows users to include up to four pictures with a tweet. Previously, the limit had been one photo.


-- The Nation 2014-04-09

No anonymity anymore. Tagging is all part of tracking. Social media terms allow location tracking so the "Eye" (Google on down to lowly Homeland Security) knows, where, when, who, etc. Sickening.

Not to mention that in America at least, Human Resources run a social media check on new job applicants. So now one photo of you in a, uh compromising position, while funny at the time, may well cost you a job.

Even try to maintain anonymity with a fake name via an email account, and "tagged" and you are ID'd, anonymity gone.

Seems there are two options only: Give up and let the world (the Eye) know everything, or simply don't use social media.