In the Netherlands, the personal data of 174,000 customers and drivers was leaked, and Uber didn’t inform them within 72 hours after the discovery of the fraud. But I think we will have to wait a long time before we know what the real impact of GDPR is. We will then be able to quantify whatever progress we have made. I hope that by then our mailboxes will be clean and are rid of all the useless and despicable spam and other bad practices. Unfortunately, I have my doubts. Until then, let’s wait and see how things go and grow a stiff upper lip.Social Media tools: the best tools are your eyes and your brains In the series of missing social media tools, there’s one more addition: Twitter Counter.
I mention here my friend and France Email List co-author Hervé Kabla, who on his blog Kablages wrote an article on the recent disappearance of Twitter Counter. Certainly, some of you are wondering what Twitter Counter was. The ‘dead social media tools society’ Twitter Counter is, or rather was, a tool that allows you to monitor the progress of a Twitter account, including benchmarking an account against another.Among other things, it was used to identify the not-so-wise guys who buy followers. social media tools Bygone Social Media Tools Hereunder is the account of a large CAC40 company, whose name has been blurred intentionally; it’s a bit late to worry about it, because this massive purchase of followers took place 4 years ago.
Twitter Counter was among the most used social media tools Social media tools that have disappeared Twitter Counter is not the first social media tool to disappear. We had Klout not long ago, and Kred before it. All the free tools of social media are disappearing one after the other.It is true that Twitter Counter had not changed for 10 years. This domain has been considerably monetized in recent years, along with its inherent tools. This should not come as a surprise for users. All the students I teach, year after year, seem to be obsessed with social media tools and they all expect everything to be free. After all, the Internet is built on the freemium model and we cannot blame them for nurturing such expectations.