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Brands pay Twitter to falsely appear in your following list
A Twitter advertising technique is perturbing people. Promoted brands like MasterCard and IFC are appearing in the list of accounts some users follow, even if they don’t actually follow them. Sources familiar with the company’s advertising strategy tell me this has been occurring since early 2013, but the public has only just now cottoned onto it thanks to actor William…
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How is this at all ethical? As soon as the question of making money comes up, it seems like all companies loose their moral compass and go with what earns the most.
It's not..But the only thing that matters appears to be is to get a mountain of money as fast as humanly possible and the consequence of doing so matter not .
Yep, human nature is to think short term, this is just another side effect of that approach.