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Now Advertisers Are Watching Your Emojis On Twitter (thenextweb.com)
Tweet a pizza emoji, and expect to see promoted tweets from Domino's and Pizza Hut on your feed. Twitter has announced that it would now let advertisers target users based on the emojis they post on the microblogging platform. Gizmodo reports: The social network, which hasn't made a profit despite a decade of trying, is trying to compete in a world where everyone is thirsty for those big advertising dollars. Just this week, Facebook said it would start using location services to track which stores you go into, something Google has been doing for years. Snapchat's thinking the same thing with new features that allow full-screen video ads between friends' stories.
Damn now I'm getting ads for giant foam fingers for my favorite sports team.
I wonder who will target that?
What if I never use emoji? Will they show me ads for products designed to keep the kids off my lawn?
I need to know if McDonalds, Coka Cola and WalMart are still in business and selling the same things.
Said no one, ever.
Can I still buy toilet paper? Oh god, how do I type a shit emoji on a PC?
I think there's been some mistake. I don't have any emojis on Twitter. Can someone please fact check the title of this article. Maybe they meant someone else's emojis rather than mine.
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Look, since the invention of fucking doritos, everytime you say the word "triangle", Pepsico kills a kitten. Have You ever read any book about communication sciences??? or the only thing that you did at campus was aprtying and smoke weed (without oing that stydying other sciences besides exact sciences)???
Oh advertisers, is there anything you won't rub your greasy little dicks on in the hope of getting a few more dollars?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Slashdort.
Well, at least we can be thankful that nothing of value will be lost.
That is what these services exist for. They are an advertising platform. Instead of complaining, make the best of it and try to pull in a few bucks yourselves. It doesn't cost you anything.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
With more & more companies announcing more & more intrusive ways to shove advertising down our throats I have no doubt that this will be the 'end of social media' soon enough. App downloads have already plateaued & are even in decline. FB is having trouble with retention, Twitter has always had trouble with that & making money etc.
The beginning of the end of social media (with ALL its glorious flaws) is upon us.
The idea of using emoji's or modern ascii art is distasteful enough, but the reality that there aren't really standards and what you send might not be what is received only make communication more difficult. Kind of like sending smoke signals on a really windy day, or color coding things when 1/4th of the recipients are color blind. Is this really where things are going, like in Blade Runner, where the people on the street speak slang only and rest of the people speak a totally different language, or maybe the comparison between Greek and Latin.
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Dominoes will sell your preferred and pre stored order when you sms a pizza emoji to them
I'm waiting for the next super massive solar flare lasting three years. It ill be like the tower of babble.
I never got involved in that social media garbage.
"Personal interaction is rapidly becoming a lost art, just as writing a letter was back when I was a kid."
I travel internationally, and I still write letters back home. They arrive with foreign stamps attached, and I don't give a damn if they are ever opened, much less read.
In time, I collect them back; there is a large stack of them just by my left elbow.
This is something that has been lost- The Paper Trail.
Recently, I asked a girl... hell, she has been a woman for decades... if she was interested in the letters that I've been sending her all these years, always returned, always unopened. She wasn't interested; she now tweets, I don't.
I'm considered more than a little odd by those friends left to me. But at least I'm not a California Best Friend. A Best Friend until the change of seasons, or addresses, or TV schedules prompts the desire for new Best Friends.
You fucking losers, with your apps and your tweets and your anime and your emojis, all originally designed for pre-pubescent Asian schoolgirls. As if you could ever actually be one.
-Phileas F.
You know, there's a poop emoji - who tracks you if you post that? Toilet paper companies? Laxatives? Taco Bell?
I get what you mean regarding the interpretation of icons or hieroglyphics and maybe I was unclear in my point, that when I send a curly haired little winkie guy, you might receive a chocolate ice cream cone, because the underlying code was not standard, not so much as the conceptual difference which you correctly outlined.
While Latin remained the main written language of the Roman Empire, Greek came to be the language spoken by the well-educated elite, as most of the literature studied by Romans was written in Greek. In the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which later became the Byzantine Empire, Latin was never able to replace Greek, and after the death of Justinian, Greek became the official language of the Byzantine government. The expansion of the Roman Empire spread Latin throughout Europe, and Vulgar Latin evolved into dialects in different locations, gradually shifting into many distinct Romance languages.
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The tower of Babel is more like the different groups of the 'Diversity in our society', or the different cultures of our 'Multiculturalism society' each talking their own language. And with own language I don't mean like English vs French, but a Christian Creationist talking to an atheist 4th wave feminist transgender. They use the same language, but they do not understand what the other is telling them.
When I was a kid, old people talked the same language, but they at different values as us. We still understood them however. They experienced world wars, we only experienced peace. We had respect for those older people.
But the different cultures or the 'diversities' in today's society are quite different. I've a Muslim colleague trying to convert me as a non religious person to Islam. I hear what he says, but I simply do not understand him when he recites his verses that should convince me somehow, while I don't believe in angles nor gods. He doesn't understand how I can not see 'the truth' with his irrefutable proofs he recites.
In the same way I hear another person telling me that we should all be humane and help all refugees who drown in the Mediterranean sea. I don't really understand what she means with that. Does she really believe we can save those fortune seekers while we sit on our lazy ass behind our desk while doing menial work for our boss, as long as we vote for the right political party? I explain that we can't stop people from mounting too small inflatable boats with too many people, and that those people are simply fortune seekers who risk their life because they think they get a free house and a job, which is something we can't offer them. The refugees who really need help are stuck between many fronts in a country where we can not say which group of warriors are the 'good' one. If we really want to help, we have to make clear that we can't import millions of Africans and when we want to help refugees we have to send an army to rescue those poor villagers in Syria/Iraq who are the real refugees. She doesn't understand me and calls me selfish and even racist. We talk a language with the same word, but we don't understand each other. Instead of throwing labels at me, she could at least try to discuss her view and how her idea would help people in need. But that doesn't help, she is of the same ideology as many politicians in the EU and they are right and everyone who doesn't agree is wrong and racist or xenophobe.
This is Babel. Europe or the EU is Babel. People probably mean well, but they talk different 'languages'. Sometimes because they are so convinced of their own ideology and can't understand people who believe in another ideology. Sometimes because some people are really specialized in a small field while they try to explain a problem to some politician who has no clue (happens often with lobbyists). Sometimes because one side is deeply religious and the other is non religious.
I live close to a castle of the Teutonic Order. This is an order that exists from the 11th century until the early 19th century and was spread all across Europe and the Mediterranean. The castle, some 2 km from where I live, is still in perfect condition and is half museum/half touristic. The castle is also older than the Teutonic order and the oldest buildings are dated back to the 2nd century (administrative center/hospital in the Roman Empire). We often do a medieval role playing game and we try to be as authentic as possible, including wearing a white tabard with a black cross. 1,5 year ago, when we were practicing for the upcoming touristic season, we got a visit from the police. Apparently some Muslims were offended that we wore Crusaders outfits. They were offended and called us racist. We did not understand, we just continued a 1000 year old tradition (that never ever stopped). Yes, the castle was once the training ground for the real crusaders, but their purpose was to reconquer land that was lost to Muslim invaders. Some legends claim that the castle was once owned by the
I'm adding peach and eggplant emojis to all my communiques.
The fastest way to get me to block your account.
Cancelled my twitter account a long time ago, despise Emojis, so no problems here. :) works just fine for me.
Now get off my lawn!