Twitter uses millions of embedded Tweet buttons to customize your Who-to-Follow experience

Twitter is experimenting with personalized lists of Who to Follow accounts. Interestingly, the company is accomplishing this using data generated by millions of embedded Tweet buttons around the web.

Now Twitter is starting to customize suggestions. Not simply, as you might initially imagine, by using an Amazon.com style “people who followed @JustinBieber also follow@philosophy.” That’s part of the data, but not the whole story.The Who To Follow functionality has been on Twitter for several years. It’s part of the effort to ensure that your experience of the service is engaging, but the list is currently extremely simplistic: almost all users see the same suggested accounts.

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Twitter continues to be the anti-Facebook with Do Not Track support

While privacy seems like a concept lost on Facebook, Twitter is showing that it understands its users’ need for security by supporting Mozilla Firefox’s “Do Not Track” feature, a day before Facebook is set to raise billions in its IPO.

Federal Trade Commission CTO Ed Felten announced Twitter’s adoption of the feature today during a panel at Internet Week New York, the New York Times reports. Naturally, Twitter confirmed the news via a tweet.

Firefox users will now be able to enable the “Do No Track” feature – which lets you opt out of cookies that track personal data and online movements — when viewing Twitter’s website. Most Twitter users interact with the service via its site, but it’s unclear if Twitter will be offering any additional privacy features for users of its mobile and desktop apps. We’ve dropped a line into the company for further clarification.

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Twitter brings its best to your inbox with new email service

Twitter wants to bring the best of your timeline directly to your email inbox.

The new email service takes a digest approach. In a post on the company blog, growth and international director Othman Laraki writes that the email summary will feature “the most relevant tweets and stories shared by the people you’re connected to on Twitter.”

If it were any more old school, they’d be printing it out and having a child on a vintage bicycle hurl it at your front door.

These Twitter-in-your-inbox emails will feature.....

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