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New York / Brian Feldman / Jul 3
“Maybe more importantly, platforms like Tumblr and Vine never had data-mining operations as sophisticated as, say, Facebook’s. That’s why most of the advertising money in the industry has drained toward Facebook, which has 2 billion users, mounds of data, and can better assure advertisers of content cleanliness. Facebook is instructive: It’s less a place for creation or debate than it is for hosting all of the nitty-gritty, more boring data about your life.”
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