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[–] explodicle@local106.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why did he have to buy Twitter to get the tweet data? Isn't it all publicly visible? (Seriously asking)

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Copyright maybe?

[–] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lawsuit protection and the pairing of tweet data with internal demographics data? There's no telling what Twitter knows about its users from being installed on their phones(geocoding, network analyzation, etc.) to analyzing their advertisement engagement to sentiment analysis of word choice and it goes on and on.