Now Advertisers Are Watching Your Emojis On Twitter (thenextweb.com) 49
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.
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Anyone selling FMT pills.
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Charmin.
That seems unlikely (Score:3)
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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I think they meant me. I keep posting shit emoji and now I'm seeing lots of Apple ads.
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( E@3 ) /U\ \
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Oh advertisers (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh advertisers, is there anything you won't rub your greasy little dicks on in the hope of getting a few more dollars?
Good for them. What's the problem? (Score:1)
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.
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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.
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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.
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You are being emotional and irrational. They didn't "rob" you of anything. Please, stop with the ranting and hand waving and think it through. The phone book is global now. You can talk to anybody in the world for free. And you might even be able to talk them out of some money. There is no "robbery".
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You are being emotional and irrational. They didn't "rob" you of anything. Please, stop with the ranting and hand waving and think it through. The phone book is global now. You can talk to anybody in the world for free. And you might even be able to talk them out of some money. There is no "robbery".
How ironic you use the words "think it through", as if anyone has a choice in the matter anymore. 99.999% of humans will end up 100% traced and monitored on some social media platform in the near future, leaving even those who don't wish to participate ultimately participating anyway because you will be tracked as the anomaly that will stick out like a sore thumb.
Don't want to use a cell phone anymore due to privacy concerns? You'll be the obvious one in the crowd of human tracking, scrutinized all the mor
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Yes, people who don't blend in stand out and draw attention to themselves. Can you really tell me anything that is new about that?
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Yes, people who don't blend in stand out and draw attention to themselves. Can you really tell me anything that is new about that?
Yes, I can. Doing absolutely nothing to avoid drawing attention will ultimately draw attention. Even in what used to be the privacy of your IoT-powered home, which you also will have no choice or say in the matter. Any options to maintain privacy are being systemically eliminated, so you won't merely be forced to "blend in". You will become assimilated, or else.
I'm done feeding this. If you don't get it by now, you never will.
Cheers.
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No, doing anything different is what draws the attention. Forget about privacy, you don't have it. You never did. Learn another way to deal with it.
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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.
Do you have your car vinyl-wrapped in a garish multicolor rolling ad in exchange for compensation?
That's one physical manifestation of what you seem to be suggesting we do. Deface our "X" for money.
Or are you suggesting something else? What is it, exactly? How would users monetize it for their own gain? Become an advertiser? Of what, precisely? Jimmy Joe's Bit Shack, Computer Services and IT Management?
Oh good god I said "monetize," now I feel like I need a shower, so filthy is MBA-speak.
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Do you have your car vinyl-wrapped in a garish multicolor rolling ad in exchange for compensation?
If the car comes free for it, why not? Anyway, the bus I ride has all the garish multicolor rolling ads on it, and it's not free.
Become an advertiser?
Yes, Jimmy Joe, sell your own shit. And if you can sell space on your page (which I doubt), go for it. Online consulting D2D (door to door), you never know, you might find a way to get paid for telling a guy how to plug in his printer.
Standard emoji's ?? (Score:3)
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Emoji code not standard. (Score:2)
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 writt
The poop emoji (Score:1)
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Politicians, as it's clear you're talking about them.
Promoted Tweets (Score:2)
The fastest way to get me to block your account.
No problem (Score:2)
Cancelled my twitter account a long time ago, despise Emojis, so no problems here. :) works just fine for me.
Now get off my lawn!