Want Privacy? Use Email: Twitter Sells Public Data to DataSift

There has been a lot of press attention to the announcement by DataSift that it would be creating “a cloud-computing platform that enables entrepreneurs and enterprises to extract business insights from Twitter's public Tweets… dating back to January 2010.” I think it's important to address a very simple fact here. Twitter data is public! Sure you can have private tweets, DMS, etc, but if you want to have a private conversation, use email...

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