Twitter is selling your data

[rpm]

Twitter is selling your data

Twitter users are about to become major marketing fodder, as two research companies get set to release information to clients who will pay for the privilege of mining the data.

 

[zululami]

never used twitter... probably never will... i find it massively uninteresting...

 

[kingrob]

never used twitter... probably never will... i find it massively uninteresting...

+1

My summary of Twitter is that it's for people looking for attention and want to feel that they're chatting with celebs.

 

[froot]

+1

My summary of Twitter is that it's for people looking for attention and want to feel that they're chatting with celebs.

What he said.
Yeah, some privacy laws are bound to be broken and someone will probably make a killing out of a lawsuit

 

[mith]

only use twitter for getting better customer service..IMO companies provide better customer service when a problem is brought to their attention through twitter than via email.

 

[greg0205]

+1

My summary of Twitter is that it's for people looking for attention and want to feel that they're chatting with celebs.

Twitter is for stalking celebrities... Facebook is for stalking your friends. MySpace is for stalking underage girls and the rest of the internet is porn... The internet in a nutshell.

 

[froot]

MySpace is for stalking underage girls

On the internet? Nope. Those are undercover FBI agents.

 

[GreyBush]

only use twitter for getting better customer service..IMO companies provide better customer service when a problem is brought to their attention through twitter than via email.

I see it as an RSS feed that you can reply to.

 

[betty85]

only use twitter for getting better customer service..IMO companies provide better customer service when a problem is brought to their attention through twitter than via email.

I find this to be true too

 

[grok]

Like someone said .. if you're not paying for it, you ARE the product.