Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City.

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How to find out if your data is in the Facebook torrent file

Someone scraped the publicly-available Facebook directory and hosted it as a torrent file, so anyone with an internet connection could download it.Here's how you can figure out if your information was in that file:From your Facebook profile dashboard click on 'Account' in the upper right hand side of your dashboard.

July 29, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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Twitter adds new section that shows mutual friends

I logged in to Twitter today and noticed that there is a new section above the list of people you follow called, "You both follow":I think this is a really cool feature and will make Twitter more discoverable. They have all of this valuable social data under the hood, but now they are starting to surface it.

June 11, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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