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Did you know that Twitter just sold every frekin tweet since 2010 to a company? - stevemxusa - 02-26-2014 07:34 AM Privacy campaigners condemned Twitter yesterday for allowing businesses to buy access to its archive of millions of tweets. About seven million people in Britain use the social networking website to post short messages to ‘followers’. Most believe their tweets are unavailable to those outside their chosen network after a week because that is when they can no longer be searched for on the site. But Twitter has archived every tweet – there are about 250million a day – and has agreed a deal allowing the UK-based company Datasift to trawl through all those posted since January 2010. - Eternal Optimist - 02-26-2014 07:49 AM Twitter is a company, a business and must pay for itself, and ultimately make a profit. The same can be said for Google and Facebook. Unless, its users wish to be met by a paywall demanding subscription, advertising and marketing is necessary. - IPODTOUCH - 02-26-2014 07:54 AM That's why I use twitter only to follow people and not to actually tweet. - 狐忠 Fidelis - 02-26-2014 08:06 AM 1. The Library of Congress has been archiving tweets for quite some time; it was in the news a while back. 2. Twitter is a PUBLISHING SERVICE! If anyone thinks they have privacy there, they must think they have privacy if they put an ad in the New York Times, too!   - Ali Ayeman - 02-26-2014 08:08 AM Yes, this is the business. All about earning money and profit. You can have more information on 'twitter followers' from this site. http://www.twitterfb.com/