location_set

Determine whether the TSN Location value has been set or not.

Approximately 80-85% of confirmed twam accounts on Twitter do not have a Location set.

In comparison, around 90% of confirmed non-twam accounts do have a Location set.

This is most likely due to the automated applications that are used to generate spam accounts on Twitter simply fail to set the Location attribute as part of the account creation.

Additionally, individuals who maintain legitimate Twitter accounts will, in the most part, wish to set their Location in order for others to know where they are - for most twam accounts this is mostly irrelevant.

Due to the nature of the attribute being examined, this module returns a Grade of 1 or 5 - there is no granularity between Grades 2-4.

If the TSN has a Location set, a Grade of 1 is returned. Without being Verified, the TSN Grade for this module is 5.

A TSN with a location set:

<location_set> 
	<date>1266773726</date> 
	<exec_time>4</exec_time> 
	<raw_data> 
		<set>true</set> 
		<location>London, UK</location> 
	</raw_data> 
	<result>1</result> 
</location_set> 

No location set:

<location_set> 
	<date>1266773818</date> 
	<exec_time>4</exec_time> 
	<raw_data> 
		<set>false</set> 
		<location></location> 
	</raw_data> 
	<result>5</result> 
</location_set> 

none

It is expected that as automated twam applications increase in sophistication, they will start setting the Location attribute in order to increase the impression of legitimacy.