Twitter blocks legitimate tracking channels. With around 500 million tweets every day, it is very difficult for any organization, including sophisticated government agencies, to analyze its valuable information.
This could help to better understand critical events such as terrorist attacks and human emotions on important issues at a given time.
Προφανώς, το Twitter δεν έχει τέτοιες υπηρεσίες ανάλυσης. Η Wall Street Journal αναφέρει ότι η εταιρεία μπλόκαρε την Dataminr, μια εταιρεία που παρέχει analytics και εντοπίζει μοτίβα από κάθε tweet που δημοσιεύτηκε. Ο exclusion της υπηρεσίας από το Twitter φέρεται να έγινε καθώς οι μυστικές υπηρεσίες των ΗΠΑ χρησιμοποιούν την Dataminr.
Citing sources familiar with the issue, WSJ reported that Dataminr executives recently told secret services that Twitter stopped working with the company.
A senior executive confirmed her movement of Twitter and said the company "appeared to be concerned about how close the data is to US intelligence."
Twitter shows that it closely controls its APIs and data it exposes. According to WSJ, Dataminr, which owns a 5% of Twitter shares, was the only service that had access to full real-time network streaming on both current and old tweets. So the US government does not have many close-up alternatives to the network.
Dataminr is a service used by private businesses in areas such as finance, news, εταιρικής ασφάλειας και διαχείρισης κρίσεων. Η εταιρεία σημείωσε ότι κοινοποίησε στους πελάτες της για τις επιθέσεις στις Βρυξέλλες το Μάρτιο, 10 λεπτά πριν από τα μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης, και ότι έχει παράσχει έγκαιρες προειδοποιήσεις για επιθέσεις του ISIS στη Λιβύη, καθώς και για την βραζιλιάνικη πολιτική crisis.
Twitter is an incredibly powerful source of information about what's going on every day and about what's going to happen, so you understand how important it is for government agencies.
According to Mashable the company's latest transparency report showed that the number of concession requests data in the US government increased by 65 percent during the last six months of 2015 compared to the same period in 2014.
The problem with Twitter's decision to stop accessing secret services via Dataminr is that it reduces their ability to seek information about potential risks through legitimate methods.
