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“Starting July 6, you will be able to show your birthday in your Twitter profile. To add your birth date to your Twitter profile, choose the “Edit profile” option on Twitter.com,” a Twitter blog post says. The micro-blogging site has introduced an option to set your date of birth in its settings menu that will appear on your profile page.

“The visibility setting for your birth year is separate from the setting for your birth month and day, giving you the flexibility to share as much (or as little) as you want,” the post continued. By filling out your date of birth, you will get a screen full of balloons and more timely congratulatory tweets.

“No matter the privacy level you set, Twitter will use the information for marketing purposes, a note in its support database confirms that the social network will use your birthday “to show you more relevant content, including ads,” it said.

By Premji