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Twitter Will Soon Track Which Apps You Use On Your Phone

While users can opt-out of the feature, it still rasies questions of the service wanting to know more than you want to share

 

Twitter is forever looking to find new ways to put better targeted ads on your tweet stream, but its latest approach is bound to spark off some controversy. The company has revealed that it will begin tracking the apps you have installed on your smartphone, in order to improve the relevance of ads and content you get to see.

While the monitoring hasn't begun just yet, Twitter has said it will alert users when it goes online. Further, the company makes it clear that it will not collect data from within apps (unlike Google which goes through your email, in order to make its services much better for you).

However, it seems that Twitter understands its new data gathering method is bound to tick a lot of people off, and has made it an opt-out feature. The service will scoop up info on the apps you use automatically unless you tell it otherwise.

Still, several questions are being raised about Twitter wanting to know more about its users' behavior than they are willing to share. Both Google and Apple do allow developers to scoop some amount of information about the apps running on a device, so Twitter's move isn't going to turn into some massive legal fiasco.


TAGS: Twitter, Apps

 
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