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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.
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.
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...
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.
Social media doesn't "exist" to rob you of every fucking shred of privacy, which is the price you ultimately pay.
Of course, me having to explain that to you clearly demonstrates the Millennial demographic you represent, and the attitude towards privacy that I fucking despise.
Enjoy your "free" services, since it's clear you would sell your soul as long as the price is right.
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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errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Wow, you are so wrong. "Social media" exists *precisely* to extract as much information about you, your friends, and your family that is possible in order to give advertisers the best profile possible.
You don't really think Zuckerberg cares that you get to connect with long-lost friends and probably cheat on your wife, do you? Naw, all he sees is metadata and keywords.
You really think me or the other billion humans on this planet give a flying fuck what Zuckerberg's mission statement is?
I wasn't talking about the business end of social media. I was talking about the purpose in which people use social media. And it wasn't to rob you of every shred of privacy, secretly record every conversation while running in the background, and track your every fucking move on this planet.
People simply don't give a shit about privacy anymore, all because the price is right.