Twitter to shower users with balloons on birthdays | Latest News & Gossip

But beware: if you add your birthday to your Twitter profile, you may start seeing some birthday-themed ads around your big day. Twitter would also like to make it a lot easier for the people who buy ads to target you.

According to CNet, Twitter’s new feature is the company’s last attempt in order to attract more people to use its service.

If you choose to add your birthday to your profile, it will be displayed to the audience that you’ve chosen. It is, in fact, probably justa tool to help garner much-needed advertising revenues as has been stated officially as well: “customise Twitter experience and provide targeted ads“. Now, if you choose to share your birthday on your profile, it will.

To add a birthday, click “Edit Profile” and you’ll see a new option for birthday.

It is worth noting that Twitter has provided the visibility setting for birth year as well as birth date.

From now, the popular social media giant will set your date of birth in its settings menu that will now be visible on your profile page.

A new feature launched by the micro-blogging giant today lets users receive a shower of animated balloons to celebrate their birthday.

Twitter would like to wish you a happy birthday.

The feature is also entirely optional – so if you don’t feel like sharing any birthday info, well, that’s okay, too. So the beauty of Twitter-that users can create parody accounts and use whatever names they please-actually works against the interests of its advertisers. Or it could simply ask them when they are born. The balloons makes it seem like they’re trying to put one over on us.