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Published on Oct 28, 2016
Oct.
27 -- For years, Twitter has offered access to its "Firehose"—the
global deluge of tweets, half a billion a day—to a number of companies
that monitor social media. Some of those companies resell the
information—mostly to marketers, but also to governments and law
enforcement agencies around the world. Some of these authorities use the
data to track dissidents, as Bloomberg Businessweek has learned through
dozens of interviews with industry insiders and more than 100 requests
for public records from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. Bloomberg
Businessweek's Ben Elgin has more on "Bloomberg Markets."
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