Posted on 12/15/2018 7:25:52 AM PST by BenLurkin
Since 2016, Twitter has offered advertisers the ability to see which emojis users are sending in the app.
That data turns out to be a gold mine for advertisers, which look at your emojis to determine your emotional state, then deliver highly targeted ads depending on your current mood....
Twitter noted that advertisers can use the emoji data to show users ads based on their mood, 'target people who tweet food emojis' and 'reach people on their passions.'
'If someone puts a thumbs up or a smiley face, show them this ad,' Aaron Goldman, chief marketing officer at 4C Insights, one of the companies working with Twitter, told Marketplace.
'If they do a frowny face or a thumbs down, show them a different ad,
'Weve seen people targeting football and basketball emojis for athletic wear,' he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
People can get together and use EMOJ’s that mean the opposite how they feel. on an agreed time they can randomly reverse.
Another reason not to use twitter.
Privacy. What is that?
A friend used to accuse me of ‘being happy just being unhappy’. He made me laugh about it. Think about it too.
Twitter twaddle?
i guess i’m safe: i don’t use emojis ... for that matter i don’t use apps either ...
The never ending, can’t get away from, commercials. pfft
Soooo...about once a month my very best friend and I talk for an hour or more by phone...(I rarely talk on the phone except for with her). Yesterday afternoon we talked....last night I went to Pinterest (a guilty pleasure, crafts, recipes, etc)...and two things popped up that were directly RELATED to our conversation...VERY CREEPY. (And, NOT related to any of my interests.) We may start toying with them in future conversations....anyone noticed this? This means the cell provider AND Pinterest both are using our words...I suppose a LANDLINE may end this...or handwritten letters.
We Marylanders who use the crab emoji are going to be discriminated against based on a mistaken interpretation of its meaning!
There should be no tracking allowed at all.
Shocked it took 5 posts.
#29 Known issue. I saw a youtube video where a guy demonstrated this. Those spy devices people get like Alexa and Siri or google home.
Example of google listening.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-google-listening-android/
Amazon
https://www.techworld.com/security/does-amazon-alexa-listen-to-my-conversations-3661967/
Thanks. I don’t have alexa or one of those....but, my friend may. I do have Google...because of my Android phone...and, I’ve tried disabling things I don’t use but it will not let me disable much of Google.
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