Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data back

Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by NZ_Matt on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @02:00PM (#3859322)

Twitter is one of the worst culprits. Currently there is no way to search for any tweet more than a few days old.

Google's realtime search used to provide the ability to search and retrieve tweets from a specific date and time in the past, but twitter cancelled that deal and haven't provided any decent replacement.

A publicly accessible archive has huge potential for research. A friend of mine used Google's realtime search to pin point and keep record of the first tweets out of Christchurch following the Christchurch earthquake. Sadly there is no way to do this now and twitter don't seem to care.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by _delirium on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @05:59PM (#3860448)

They're going to start selling archives of the past two years' of Tweets through DataSift, though for DataSift's usual hefty prices (for a real-time feed, they currently charge $0.10/tweet!): http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17178022

Presumably the target customer is researchers of the finance-sector variety rather than researchers of the sociology or history-department variety...

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by sad_panda on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @10:58PM (#3861202)

$0.10/tweet? That is insane!

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by knotty66 on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @02:32PM (#3859486)

This wouldn't bother me at all if I didn't think they still had the data. The transient nature of tweets is one of my favourite features of Twitter.

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