Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Re-Tweeted: Twitter sells years of everyone's old, vanished Tweets to online marketing companies


Twitter opened up its archive of Tweets for sale to online marketing companies sparking a new storm over privacy of users of social media.
After doing a deal with Twitter, Datasift has become the first company to offer its business partners the chance to rifle through 24 months of people's Tweets from the site.
More than 1,000 companies have joined a waiting list to use the marketing goldmine, compiled from around 250 million Tweets a day.
Normal people can only access a few days' worth of Twitter's history.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2107693/Bitter-tweet-Twitter-throws-open-years-everyones-Tweets-online-marketing-companies.html#ixzz1nhOtbaPG

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