Twitter to start snooping in your phone

Twitter will start snooping in your phone to see what apps you have installed, to be able to send more tailored ads your way. From their very own support document:


First of all: fuck no! Turn this off, at the vey least.

Second, if this isn’t incentive to limit ad tracking in your mobile device’s settings, I don’t know what is. Go and do that now if you haven’t already.

And finally, third, this is just the official Twitter app snooping around, third-party apps won’t necessarily do this. Granted, the market for third-party Twitter app is strained at best, with Twitter slowly killing it off while trying to limit the backlash of their actions. If snooping around is in their business model (which it is, since ads are their way of making money), you should probably stay clear of their apps.

These are not the actions of a company that means well.


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