Twitter puts trillions of tweets up for sale to data miners
(Guardian):
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/18/twitter-puts-trillions-tweets-for-sale-data-miners
"Computer systems are already aggregating trillions of tweets from the
microblogging site, sorting and sifting through countless
conversations, following the banter and blustering, ideas and opinions
of its 288 million users in search of commercial opportunities. It is
not only commercial interests that are mining the data. Academics are
using it to gauge the mood in a football crowd, and trying to shed
light on whether Premier League players such as Manchester United's
Radamel Falcao are overpaid - with a team of researchers from Reading,
Dundee and Cambridge universities testing whether top-flight
footballers' salaries are related purely to performance on the pitch
or can be boosted by popularity on social media."
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