Twitter has a tracking feature called ‘app graph‘ that collects a list of all the apps you have on your mobile device, in order to ‘build a more personal Twitter experience for you’. Basically, this means giving you better targeted advertising.
You may not notice this new feature, but you can choose to deactivate it in settings. Read more below.
App Graph is designed so that Twitter can tailor its experience to you, including “improved who to follow suggestions, adding tweets, accounts, or other content to your timeline that we think you’ll be interested in, and more relevant promoted content.”
App Graph doesn’t collect any data on what you do with your apps, just which apps you have. However, if you find that to intrusive, you can turn it off by going into Settings. Tap the Me tab, then the gear icon, then Settings. Choose the account you want to change, then under Privacy you can toggle ‘Tailor Twitter based on my apps.’
We have reached out to Twitter to ask whether ‘adding.. accounts’ means you may automatically follow some accounts due to app graph.
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Source: Twitter
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