Twitter will struggle with obsessive advertisers

The Western press has been informed by the Director of Technology at the Federal Trade Commission United States (FTC) Ed Felten that the administration service Twitter will soon decide on the entry into force of the functions on the Do Not Track microblogging service.

Do Not Track is a feature that will prevent the collection of personal information about the user network. At present this function supports browsers Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera.

Effects Do Not Track is based on the principle of prevention of advertisers that the user does not want him to collect any information and treated it, or brought into the base of potential customers.

Twitter's initiative to take part in the fight against Assertive advertisers, who sometimes go all crossed the line and violate the privacy of personal data support the developers at Mozilla.

Statistics show that the function of preventing harassment in the network is enabled by 8.6% a PC that is running the browser Firefox.