A portion of your followers will click on it; the company doesn't care if the clicks are in disgust or curiosity (and it will be both).
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Replying to @zeynep
Fox News cared when people heard the O'Reilly accusations and started going after its advertisers.
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Replying to @mattdpearce
Which shows going after money is a good path. Giving it clicks is giving it money, the opposite path. At a minimum, you can screenshot.
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Replying to @zeynep
Granted. But I was taking contention with your argument to not even tweet about it.
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Replying to @mattdpearce
I have this argument with myself a lot; I think for extreme privacy violations, not tweeting is often better. Or vague tweeting. No traffic.
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Replying to @zeynep
Matt Pearce 🦅 Retweeted Jody Avirgan
My problem with this is that over and over and over again in recent months, we've seen the consequences of sunlight.https://twitter.com/jodyavirgan/status/854774811024863232 …
Matt Pearce 🦅 added,
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Replying to @mattdpearce @zeynep
that said, I do see you re: privacy violation, but they've also got hundreds of thousands of readers. they've done it. it's out there.
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Replying to @mattdpearce
Scale matters in privacy violations; if they don't get readership, less likely to repeat. Also, very different targeting high-profile ppl+
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Replying to @zeynep @mattdpearce
..with attention (your sunshine) vs. giving traffic to basically stalking articles.
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Replying to @zeynep
the difference here, I would suggest, is framing. because they're blasting Malia stuff out over and over again, presumably because it works
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I am sure it works. I'd be fine for a campaign targeting their advertisers. But not just tweeting easy-to-click form.
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