Liberal giant Twitter isn't making enough money. 
lain: You on the other hand have no right to make that much.
Twitter boasts what it can do with your data.
Social networks have two faces. One trumpets a heartwarming message about making the world a better place by connecting people. The other has a gimlet-eyed focus on extracting value from the data of those people. Today Twitter flaunted its mercenary side....Dorsey opened today’s event with a paean to Twitter’s idealistic side. “Twitter stands for freedom of expression and we will not rest until that’s recognized as a universal human right,” he said. He cited the Black Lives Matter movement as an example of how “Twitter stands for speaking truth to power”—and then handed over to executives who introduced new products with a commercial focus.
Twitter stands for freedom of expression? Not if you are on the right. Then your hate speech will be blocked.
The new service can also report on what categories of people are most likely to take certain actions in the app, for example make a purchase. The service is free, but—like other free tools Twitter offers to help companies build mobile apps in a bundle dubbed Fabric—it could help the social network’s bottom line by leading app makers toward its mobile ad service, MoPub. Twitter announced today that the platform will now sell video ads that appear in the stream of updates its users see.
lain: You on the other hand have no right to make that much. Twitter boasts what it can do with your data.
Social networks have two faces. One trumpets a heartwarming message about making the world a better place by connecting people. The other has a gimlet-eyed focus on extracting value from the data of those people. Today Twitter flaunted its mercenary side....Dorsey opened today’s event with a paean to Twitter’s idealistic side. “Twitter stands for freedom of expression and we will not rest until that’s recognized as a universal human right,” he said. He cited the Black Lives Matter movement as an example of how “Twitter stands for speaking truth to power”—and then handed over to executives who introduced new products with a commercial focus.
Twitter stands for freedom of expression? Not if you are on the right. Then your hate speech will be blocked.
The new service can also report on what categories of people are most likely to take certain actions in the app, for example make a purchase. The service is free, but—like other free tools Twitter offers to help companies build mobile apps in a bundle dubbed Fabric—it could help the social network’s bottom line by leading app makers toward its mobile ad service, MoPub. Twitter announced today that the platform will now sell video ads that appear in the stream of updates its users see.
