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download the Twitter app to your smartphone and get ready to share more than your tweets once you agree to find friends Twitter starts collecting your personal information when you use the application in order to match you with other people who might be using it your address book goes up to the server besides your contacts names phone numbers and email addresses Twitter records browsing history and search terms what Twitter wasn't telling people was that they were keeping that address book for 18 months which is a long time to keep all your personal data in an email to the Los Angeles Times Twitter spokeswoman Carolyn Penner said quote we want to be clear and transparent at our communications with users along those lines and our next app updates which are coming soon we are updating the language associated with fine friends to be more explicit CNET's rafe needleman says Twitter however is not alone all the social companies are doing this some of them tell you some of them don't should we be concerned yes the reaction from Twitter users in downtown San Francisco with mixed I always wonder about like where the information is going to go like what what other uses gonna have I figure usually internet you better get used to the fact that you don't have any privacy I don't think I'm very uncomfortable with that because if there's something I want to share then I don't mind sharing it because of Public and Governmental pressure most apps being written now or updated like Twitter will allow users to authorize or opt-out of sharing personal information in San Francisco and Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News