Sunday 8 May 2016
Given that roughly 500 million tweets are published each day, it can be difficult for any organization, including sophisticated government agencies, to analyze them for valuable insights. But doing so would help them get a better idea about critical events, like terror attacks, and understand people’s sentiments about major issues at any given point of time. Apparently, Twitter is having none of it. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company has blocked Dataminr, a company that delivers analytics and identifies patterns across every tweet ever published, from granting US intelligence agencies access to its service. Citing a source familiar…
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