Of course, Facebook, Twitter, Google and all sorts of other companies don’t offer their services for free because they like us so much. Ultimately, they want to make money. And they do that by collecting data about us with free products for which they then charge money. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product .
In itself it makes sense. We get something from them, so there has to be something in return . Only: what we get email data is clear, but what we pay for it is less so. What exactly happens to our data, who gets to see it, how are they combined, how long are they stored? I have no idea.
I have tried to show alternatives
for the ‘unconsciously’ acquired trackers on your site. As I said, our site is also full of them. They are also very useful and user-friendly. In the coming months I will try to implement some of these alternatives. I will share our experiences with you.
On average, 5700 tweets are sent per second worldwide, around 500 million per day. If you spend three seconds reading a tweet, you miss 17099! How do you see the forest for the trees? By only following those tweeters who are interesting to you, you make a selection of what is interesting to you. But imagine that you want to use Twitter as a journalist to find real news, how do you do that?
Is Twitter faster than the news?
When the Turkish Airways plane crashed at Schiphol, the news was on Twitter very quickly. Faster than in the regular this is important because this approach allows marketing list media. That is completely logical and it is also an incorrect comparison. First the logical part: posting a message on Twitter is much faster than writing a news item. In a maximum of 140 characters you report what you think is going on. In addition, the number of tweeters is greater than the number of journalists, which makes it more likely that it will be on Twitter faster than on the website of a newspaper or blog.
