Twitter will soon be making a change to the way it deals with data on your Android or Apple iOS smartphone, the company will soon be able to scan your smartphone to see what applications you have installed.
Twitter has said that this is being done to better serve promoted content to you, and also bring tweets from other to your timeline and recommend people to follow.
The new feature will be turned on automatically, and you will need turn the feature off in order for twitter to stop tracking what applications you have installed.
If you want to turn the feature off you need to follow the settings below.
Using Twitter for Android:
Tap the overflow icon
Tap Settings.
Tap the account you’d like to adjust.
Under Other, you can adjust the setting to Tailor Twitter based on my apps.
Using Twitter for iOS:
From the Me tab, tap the gear icon
Tap Settings.
Tap the account you’d like to adjust.
Under Privacy, you can adjust the setting to Tailor Twitter based on my apps.
You can find out more details about this new tracking that is headed to Android and iOS with Twitter over at the company’s website at the link below.
Source Twitter, Phandroid
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