{"id":367058,"date":"2010-02-26T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/social-networking\/twitter-user-profile-update-prompt.html"},"modified":"2010-02-26T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:48:59","slug":"twitter-prompting-users-to-update-profile-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/367058","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Prompting Users To Update Profile Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in the past three years that I have been using <a title=\"All you want to know about Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/twitter\" rel=\"tag\" >Twitter<\/a>, I was prompted by Twitter to enter\/update my profile information trough an overlay window. The prompt in question asks users to fill their profile information as well as adds a privacy option to disable find by email address.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"twitter_profile_update_prompt\" border=\"0\" alt=\"twitter_profile_update_prompt\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/TwitterPromptingUsersToUpdateProfile_DD85\/twitter_profile_update_prompt.png\" width=\"330\" height=\"301\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>The prompt titled as &quot;Be found on Twitter&quot;, asks user to enter their name, bio, location, email along with allowing users to disable being discovered through their email address.<\/p>\n<p>Though I don&#8217;t see the point behind this, I am guessing that several users do not have proper profile information setup for their account and Twitter is running a drive to get more information about users. 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