Theres a veritable wealth of data to be gleaned from the worlds tweets, but apparently its not so easy for researchers to get a hold of. To that end, Twitter has announced that it will start granting certain research institutions no-cost access to the globes (public) 140-character musings as part of its Data Grants program. If youre thinking that this sounds a bit familiar, its because Foursquare recently did something similar and even used the same company — Gnip — to do the legwork.
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