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We're watching you.
Twitter is one of the best ways to follow the news, live events, and to keep up with the people in your life in real-time. While Facebook chooses what you see through an algorithm, Twitter is a firehose of everything those you follow are tweeting or retweeting.
The trade-off for being a free service, however, is that the platform is ad-supported, embedding "native" ads that look like tweets into your timeline from anyone willing to pay.
Just like Google, Twitter actively tracks the sites that users visit which helps the company create a profile of likes, dislikes, and so on which can be used to more effectively tailor adverts.
Constantly being tracked around the web may be too invasive for some users, however, and so Twitter provides options for cutting back. Here's how to find them.