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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwitter starts peeking at the other apps on your phone
Twitter, hungry for new data to fuel its targeted advertising, will start looking at what other apps its users have downloaded.
Starting Wednesday, the company will begin collecting data on which other apps its users have on their iOS and Android smartphones. The data, Twitter says, will help it deliver better tailored content to its users. Thats sure to include ads, but maybe also better recommendations about whom to follow when users sign up, or more relevant first tweets in the feed, which could help Twitter hook people early.
Its strictly a list of the apps users have installed, Twitter says, not data pertaining to what people do inside those apps. So Twitter would know if you have a ride-hailing app, but it wouldnt see your rides taken with the app.
Twitter is not the only company to collect this sort of dataother major Internet companies like Google and Facebook do it too under certain circumstances. Facebook, if a developer has integrated its software kit, might use the data for mobile app ads.
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Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Knowing that I am not on twitter or facebook...
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)when they walk around with the object of spying in their pockets. companies like FAcebook, Google, Twitter, know more about people than the government ever will.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)It's a severely hamstrung platform for blurting out (and re-blurting!) a user's random thought of the hour.