早上在捷運裡，用 iPhone 發了一封信到 support@atebits.com[1]，回報 Tweetie 2 for iPhone 的問題：

No way to disable geotag feature

Hi,

I'm user of tweetie 2 for iPhone. I love this software. However, I'd like to report a bug (mis design): there's no way to disable geotag feature.

I like this feature. But I'd like to keep my position in secret most of the time, and exposing it only when I really want. But, once I enabled the feature, I no longer can disable it. And, every time I post a twit, a window pop up asking whether do I allow tweetie to get my current position. Since most of the time I do not like exposing my position, I selected No. This always make tweetie fail to get geo info and lead to another error message window popped up.

The whole process is annoying. But I find no place to disable geotag feature. I would like tweetie let user choose whether they want the feature on or off defaultly. If user choose no, geotag can only attached in twit when user explicitly turned it on. After the twit sent, the option turn back to No, and user do not need to disable it manually to prevent unwanted geotag attached in next twit.

Thanks for bringing us this great software. It is really useful. I hope my suggestion can be adopted and make tweetie better.

Sincerely,
Jeff Hung

Sent from my iPhone

一分鐘之後，收到系統自動回信，我的 bug report 已經被登錄在其系統裡了。來等看看幾時可以有回應與解法。

我發現，atebits.com 的問題回應機制設計的挺精妙。support.atebits.com 的 Problems 列表裡只有我那一則問題。該頁裡有這麼一句話：

This category is private — new discussions are only visible to the support staff and the original reporter.

既然我從未在該系統建立過 profile，顯然當初那封系統自動回信給的 URL 裡，所埋的那串 anon_token 另有玄機：當我循著該 URL 造訪時，自動建立了 anonymous profile。如果我繼而選擇建立 profile 時[2]，此 anonymous profile 可以「變身」成「我」，那這整套機制就可說是走通了，帥。

  1. 寫信很耗電嗎？剛在捷運上寫了封信，iPhone電量就掉了明顯一截。 ↩
  2. 我暫時還不想。 ↩