See users' Twitter timelines with latest following feature

Even more ways to be nosey - Twitter has rolled out its stalkiest additional feature to date, essentially allowing you to see other users' timelines as part of their follower page.

When you click to see what users a Twitterer is following, instead of a boring list of names and avatars, you'll now be presented with recent tweets from the people being followed.

What's more, there's a new shuffle button in the top right hand corner of the follower page screen; this takes you randomly to the followers of a person you follow.

Follower politics

Presumably tweets from anyone with a protected Twitter account won't show up on these pages unless you already have permission to follow them.

While the changes aren't exactly magical and groundbreaking, Twitter has gradually been making it easier to find likeminded people for you to follow.

Other new-ish features include 'Who to Follow', a list of accounts with a plucked-from-the-air feel, and 'Similar to…' which tends to be made up of other Twitter accounts that user follows.

And while you've got Twitter on the brain, why not hop on over there and follow Technotheory?

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Twitter and Facebook Know Where You've Been Online? Do Not Like

For those who like to Like things on Facebook or tweet them to friends, beware: You're telling your social media much more about you than you might think.

A study carried out on behalf of the Wall Street Journal found that "Like" and "Tweet" widgets on websites track users' movements across the internet even when they're not used, with Facebook admitting to sharing data for advertising purposes only when the widget is clicked on. Twitter, meanwhile, claims to delete the information quickly, although a spokesman said that the company "could in theory use the data to 'surface better content' for users in the future."

The study, carried out by former Google engineer Brian Kennish's new comapny, Disconnect Inc., surveyed the 1,000 most popular sites online according to Google, and found that Facebook collected browsing data from 331 of them, with Twitter collecting data from "about 200." The collection of browsing data is described by their creators as an "unintended side-effect" of the way that the widgets work, with Facebook's CTO Bret Taylor telling the WSJ "We don't use them for tracking and they're not intended for tracking." Well, not yet, at least.

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