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The race to build a better Twitter - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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The interesting part in this article starts at the paragraph starting with : The biggest name in the Twitter replacement game is Mastodon

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The big difference is that when client apps, be it for Twitter or just a regular old e-mail client reads your content - it's working as intended.

If twitter staff does, they're not.

Assuming they're breaking user agreements etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@coldhotman I tend to agree with your statement concerning client apps because your data stays on your local device (unless that app is spyware). However, the concerning apps are 3d party cloud-services which use the twitter api. These include cloud automation. social media monitoring, and social media backup services. These services pull 'private' data directly off the twitter servers.