Another EMAC 2321 assignment, The Professor wants us to find an article on a twitter which inplicitly suggests something…
So, take a look at this article from Tech Crunch on the Washington Post website regarding Twitter and link tracking.
Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch.com tells us about how Twitter seemed to be implementing a sort of link click counting script witch he speculates is going to be used to tell where twitter is sending traffic. He goes onto say that although implemented in a fairly sloppy manner, such a link tracking tool could be useful, not only for them, but he says:
“All of this data would come in handy for Twitter’s planned analytics service it wants to roll out to business customers.”
This implies that he believes twitter will be mining personal data for demographic purposes being used in a new, more commercial twitter that we haven to quite seen yet. Schonfeld is implicitly saying that twitter will be collecting data on your browsing habits without your knowledge…