Twitter poses security threat to Tendulkar-india today

Sachin Tendulkar may have endeared himself to his countless fans by joining the social networking site Twitter. But in doing so, the cricketer may have exposed himself to a security risk.

Tendulkar has been using the Uber Twitter application to post his tweets via his Blackberry phone. It may not be known to the cricketer yet, but Uber Twitter has started displaying his exact coordinates --- down to the sixth decimal --- on his Twitter profile.

At 11.30 pm on Thursday, Tendulkar's location was being broadcast to his 169,000 followers as "19.048336, 72.827674" on his Twitter page, twitter.com/sachin_rt.

This is to be read as latitude 19.048336 and longitude 72.827674. With a GPS device or even a web-based tool like Google Maps, these coordinates can reveal that Tendulkar, or at least his Blackberry, was at a location near KC Road in Bandra, Mumbai. [Also see: Celebs on Twitter].
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