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Twitter vows not to record online behaviour – unlike Google and Facebook

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By John Glenday, Reporter

May 18, 2012 | 1 min read

Twitter has vowed not to track the online behaviour of its users as it bids to differentiate its data collection policies from rival social networks from Google and Facebook.

This will see Twitter lend its backing to ‘Do Not Track’, a US privacy initiative, which holds signatories to stricter limitations on what they can and cannot track.

Twitter currently collates information from sites with integrated Twitter buttons, including LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, by recording which accounts are followed by people who visit particular sites.

Now the micro blogging service has promised to only use this data to recommend other accounts based on that users browsing history.

The Do Not Track feature is already honoured by the likes of Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefor and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and includes an option which enables users to opt out of tracking – but it is down to individual websites to honour them.

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