“Who hurt you?” read the tweet, addressed to them.<\/p>\n
The tweet caused controversy, with some saying it was “creepy” of the platform to keep such close tabs on its audience, and mock their choices.<\/p>\n
However, others found it entertaining – and unsurprising that Netflix should know what its customers were viewing.
\nIn a statement, Netflix said the privacy of its members was important.<\/p>\n
“This information represents overall viewing trends, not the personal viewing information of specific, identified individuals,” said a representative.<\/p>\n
Netflix has been studying its user data closely for some time but doesn’t often share it.<\/p>\n
When the platform first decided to start producing its own material, it mined its user data to see what the most popular content was among its existing customers.<\/p>\n
At that time it discovered that the most searched-for and viewed material included that which featured (now disgraced) actor Kevin Spacey, the director David Fincher and BBC political dramas – and that led to the re-commissioning of the 1990 BBC political thriller House of Cards, involving the pair.<\/p>\n
“Netflix, like any company these days, keeps a sharp eye on what its users like so that it can offer them more of what they like,” said technology commentator Kate Bevan.<\/p>\n
“What’s a bit creepy, however, is extracting data points with no context and offering up data that should be anonymised in a way that could identify individuals.”<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Netflix has defended a tweet that revealed 53 people had watched its new Christmas film every day for 18 days in a row. “Who hurt you?” read the tweet, addressed to them. The tweet caused controversy, with some saying it was “creepy” of the platform to keep such close tabs on its audience, and mock …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,167,14],"tags":[77772],"class_list":["post-59711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-technology","category-world","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}