Tagged: Social Networking

Don’t expect private messages on Twitter to be private

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Third-Party Twitter Apps Can Access Your Private Messages Without Authorization. How disappointing. This is like the Facebook leak where they said they “accidentally” allowed advertisers to see information that they promised the privacy settings didn’t allow. It is things like this that ruin and don’t allow people to build trust in the integrity of the cloud.

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Twitter users are educated intellectuals

That is what NPR Social Media expert said in a recent podcast. I was surprised. According to the below info-graphic from 2010 this doesn’t seem to be true. Perhaps there are very intelligent people on Twitter, but I don’t think you can classify them as the majority. Have you found this to be true in your Twitter friends?

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