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Re: Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

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Post by msla »

ianlevesque wrote: post #97
clairity wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "...but how is any American supposed to do that when the President of the United States uses it as his platform?" you really have to understand twitter as trump's personal marketing/branding channel, not a presidential communications platform. it's safe to ignore. anything of import will be released through a myriad of other media.

Given that there was a court ruling recently that the president cannot block people on Twitter, I think the stature of those communications is more significant than you make out.

Much less significant, you mean.

He can't block anyone, so the news will report on anything important, meaning nobody has to use Twitter to see what he posts.

Re: Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

#102

Post by pron »

oneepic wrote: post #99

"Confesses"? I'm not a fan of everything Twitter does, but this headline is so biased. I'm actually angry now. Twitter is "disclosing" these on their own, afaik, and I take that as a morally good thing. Also, it's a bug, not intended behavior in the first place. So if I understand this whole thing correctly, they never had to tell anyone they fixed these bugs, but they did anyway and people are still writing articles…

The article says:

> It suggests this leak of data has been happening since May 2018 — which is also the day when Europe’s updated privacy framework, GDPR, came into force. The regulation mandates disclosure of data breaches (which explains why you’re hearing about all these issues from Twitter)

So, at least according to the article, they did have an obligation to disclose this.

Re: Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

#103

Post by ianlevesque »

msla wrote: post #101
ianlevesque wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that there was a court ruling recently that the president cannot block people on Twitter, I think the stature of those communications is more significant than you make out.

Much less significant, you mean. He can't block anyone, so the news will report on anything important, meaning nobody has to use Twitter to see what he posts.

Not being able to read the president's public statements directly is ok now? I don't, because they're abhorrent, but what about the next one? This is the era we are in now.

Re: Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

#104

Post by [deleted] »

jpollock wrote: post #50
move-on-by wrote: post #45

There is no shortage of good reasons to block ads. Passive ads no longer exist, if they ever did. They are all actively exploiting, tracking, and selling you- even if you never interact with them. Some might say, "Stop using twitter", but how is any American supposed to do that when the President of the United States uses it as his platform? Beyond Twitter, there is no shortage of school systems, police departments,…

Blocking ads won't stop your info from being shared during the auction. That's a back end data transfer.

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Re: Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

#105

Post by sjaknanxnnx »

ianlevesque wrote: post #103
msla wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Much less significant, you mean. He can't block anyone, so the news will report on anything important, meaning nobody has to use Twitter to see what he posts.

Not being able to read the president's public statements directly is ok now? I don't, because they're abhorrent, but what about the next one? This is the era we are in now.

The post you responded to said the president can’t block people, so yes you’re able to read his posts. The only thing stopping you ought to be your desire to maintain sanity.

Re: Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

#106

Post by alkonaut »

tictoc wrote: post #38

Here's an idea. Stop using twitter.

At least stop using official twitter apps and the site. If you can get a third party twitter client like tweetbot that makes a huge difference. I'm not sure why anyone uses twitter's official apps since they started messing with ordering, throwing in ads. Is it because they also became more restrictive with API access for third party apps? My tweetbot works like a charm still.

Re: Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

#107

Post by oneepic »

pron wrote: post #102
oneepic wrote: post #99

"Confesses"? I'm not a fan of everything Twitter does, but this headline is so biased. I'm actually angry now. Twitter is "disclosing" these on their own, afaik, and I take that as a morally good thing. Also, it's a bug, not intended behavior in the first place. So if I understand this whole thing correctly, they never had to tell anyone they fixed these bugs, but they did anyway and people are still writing articles…

The article says: > It suggests this leak of data has been happening since May 2018 — which is also the day when Europe’s updated privacy framework, GDPR, came into force. The regulation mandates disclosure of data breaches (which explains why you’re hearing about all these issues from Twitter) So, at least according to the article, they did have an obligation to disclose this.

Thanks for pointing that out. Maybe this is moving the goalposts, but I'm still happy they're at least disclosing the issues and following the mandated procedure, instead of trying to hide it and save face.

Re: Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

#108

Post by sieabahlpark »

dspillett wrote: post #91
sieabahlpark wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What the president says on Twitter affects me or the world, whether or not he uses a 9 iron or a driver to get the ball out of the sand trap does not. You can't even conflate the two. Twitter is his method of communicating to us. He doesn't use the media like previous president's.

> What the president says on Twitter affects me or the world But will be widely reported in every other media channel anyway, so you lose little or nothing by using Twitter directly. In fact, you might gain a little useful filtering, depending on your range of new outlet choices of course, and conversely there is a sort of reverse filter because you are less likely to miss things that are rather quickly deleted.

There's no harm in combining outlets but the media has historically skewed what they report for ratings. It's a business like every other.

I guess we all must have forgotten just how bad the reporting was in 2016 with his I'll take a more direct source than one that is linked through a web of news sites so it's impossible to find the original source. "Experts say"

Twitter whether you like it or not is Trump's primary communication to the US public.

Re: Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

#109

Post by sieabahlpark »

dantillberg wrote: post #90
sieabahlpark wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What the president says on Twitter affects me or the world, whether or not he uses a 9 iron or a driver to get the ball out of the sand trap does not. You can't even conflate the two. Twitter is his method of communicating to us. He doesn't use the media like previous president's.

I don't use Twitter, yet I still hear what the President says on Twitter.

Anecdotal evidence doesn't exactly sway my opinion all that strong.

Just because you can get it elsewhere doesn't mean that the source you're getting it from isn't biased one way or another.

Re: Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

#110

Post by blackflame7000 »

msla wrote: post #95
xmprt wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your analogy to golf is completely missing the point. I don't need to play or even care about golf if the President does, but if he tweets something on twitter then the only way I can validate the source of truth is by using twitter. When these tweets can have major policy and economic impacts I think it's a whole lot more important than golf.

Anything important will make the news.

Where the definition of important is defined by the News, yes.
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