Privacy

Privacy of your Location may be important to you.

3 2 1 Mark must have your location included on your Tweets in order to function. There is an option to make your Tweets private on Twitter. Only approved followers can see the Tweets of a Protected Twitter account. Using Protected Twitter accounts will make setup more complicated for your bike race officiating crew.

The Crew List feature can help when members of your officiating crew have protected Twitter IDs. These lists are implemented using Twitter Lists.

The Crew List views in 3 2 1 Mark show a lock icon on protected Twitter accounts. You need to Follow those people in order to receive their tweets.

Conversely, when YOUR Twitter account is protected anyone on a Crew List that does not follow you will be highlighted red. You must have those crew members to follow your Twitter account and you need to approve them for the app to function correctly.

If you want to keep your regular Twitter account public, you may want to create a dedicated Protected Twitter account for use with 3 2 1 Mark. You will need a different email address (they can be created for free at Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.) for each Twitter account you have.

There is some benefit to keeping the Tweets from 3 2 1 Mark public. If they are public, anyone may follow the status of the race if they know the Race Hashtag being used. You may want to use a dedicated public Twitter account without your name on it that you tie to an email account that is not your main account. (You can also disable search by email address in Twitter.) This will give you some privacy through indirection, but only a Protected Twitter account and the extra setup involved will provide real privacy control.

See About public and protected Tweets for the Twitter support page on protected Tweets.

Examples

Here the Twitter ID being used is James Abbott (screen name "jrabbott") and it is protected.

Neither SkyValleyTest nor the TweetSmarter accounts are approved followers of the jrabbott account, so they are highlighted in Red.

SkyValleyTest is also Protected, but my James Abbott account is an approved follower, so the lock icon is white.















Selecting a line in this list will provide a view with verbose details on the relationship between the two Twitter IDs involved.

If jrabbott was not an approved follower of SkyValleyTest, the view would look like this:

This view has a helpful "Request Follow" button to send the follow request. "SkyValleyTest" can approve the follow request through Twitter or in 321 Mark.




















After the request is sent the views will have an orange highlight while the follow request is pending.

and: 

On SkyValleyTest's app the request can be approved once it arrives:

SkyValleyTest still needs to follow jrabbott as well.








Touch the "Approve the Request" button here or use the Twitter website interface.