Twitter is Tracking your clicks!
Twitter is Tracking your clicks!
Twitter went down today! Yes it went down again.
When it came back up I was doing my usual looking around on Twitter and I saw the URL
“http://twitter.com/link_click_count . . .”.
I asked some people on the web about this to see if they experienced the same activity on Twitter. Yes,
Others noticed the URL as well. When Twitter came back up, the redirects vanished.
Things that make you go hmmmm~
Word on the street is that Twitter wants to track all the links people click on the site…
This story goes deeper…
Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch reports more about this story and on passed links
First of all, those links are a treasure trove of data. By seeing which links get shared and clicked on the most, Twitter can tell where it is sending the most traffic, who is sending the most traffic, the most popular tweets, the most influential users, and more.
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Retweeting messages over on twitter and short url easy access is confusing for the search engines, in addition todays announcement about future court cases arrupting the whole chain of news is worrying the news,,the weather girls and many other sources. At this rate we’ll all end up having to mosey over to Yahoo meme and start translating Spanish. I don’t pity the good work done by Twitter media police especially if they get comission on every plausible tweepi.
I’m sure you find these links interesting
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Agree something needs to be done.
Everyday I have new people in my e-mails
who follow me and it is not recorded.
So I haven’t hit the 2,000 mark becuase of this.
I really hope things change soon. My DM has
been broken for a while now, seems to be working
today. It hasn’t been easy for me to get in touch
with Twitter management.
Faith Ansah
Thanks for the comment Faith~
Things that make you go hmmm~
Have you tried emailing support@twitter.com ?
-Al
@alferretti
Opps. omgosh, I just tweeted this;
“District court rules in favor of e-verify, making sure no wet-backs working http://bit.ly/ZHXhM but ok for national health care”
Hope the secret twitter media police does not shut me down! lol
RT;
Interesting post – THIS IS HUGE! How Twitter’s New Geodata Will Optimize Local Business Websites. http://bit.ly/VgI3u
Thanks for sharing that Cal
-Al
@alferretti
I just tried to log in my acct here on Twitter and I cannot I believe that they have deleted it and all the followers I had luckily wrote some of them down because I wanted to start making a list and a big one. I also tried to start another acct with them different username and password but not email acct but I don’t think it would make any difference. If Faith Anash would like to come over to Sokule.com you could start all over again like me and even make money over there and advertise your business.
I tried your link to follow you SKeeter and it would not let me oh by the way as soon as I new I could not log in I did go to support and put in a ticket for that and not a TWEEP out of them. I figure there lost my gain because the site was put up for me by Super Super Entepreneur.
I will give you some feedback. You guys always have a great sight and keep up with the news and information. I think you guys are the best ever to keep people informed.
Thank You so much Diane,
As always it is a pleasure to serve.
Timothy
Dear Diane,
I’m sorry to hear about your Twitter Account troubles, I’ll be sure to pass this on to Skeeter when her returns from a family holiday.
Timothy
Thanks for this Great post. I really hope we as a people don’t mess up a good thing.
There is a lot of abuse of the twitter system.
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