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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Twitter unlocks archive to firms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Tue Feb 28 13:52:47 2012
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:43:31 -0800
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Twitter unlocks archive to firms
http://j.mp/ydolqG (BBC)
"Companies are now able to search and analyse up to two years of
Twitter updates for market research purposes."
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Public tweets *are* public. By definition. So any claims of privacy
violations in regards to this data being made available seem spurious.
Note that private and deleted tweets are not included in the data
being made available.
--Lauren--
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