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Re:Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive by jond3k on Thursday March 01, 2012 @08:34AM (#3651985)
"privacy betrayed" -> any of this data was ever private. it wasn't.
Re:Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive by zedr on Thursday March 01, 2012 @09:13AM (#3652103)
Unless you opted to have a private profile. I wonder how if those private tweets are included in the bundle.

I agree, however: if you want to keep your thoughts private, don't post them on the Internet. When do you do that, they don't belong to you anymore.

Re:Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive by psquid on Thursday March 01, 2012 @09:28AM (#3652156)
> I wonder how if those private tweets are included in the bundle.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17178022

"private accounts and tweets that have been deleted will not be indexed by the site"

Re:Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive by zedr on Thursday March 01, 2012 @09:45AM (#3652227)
Thanks! I admit not reading TFA.