Did you know that Twitter just sold every frekin tweet since 2010 to a company?

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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.