Twitter has announced a new academic partnership with MIT that includes a five-year $10 million commitment to a new Laboratory for Social Machines. The university will also have access, via Twitter’s own_Gnip_data firm, to all public tweets ever sent. The new lab will focus on building technology in two areas: “grounded semantics and network analysis” and “pattern discovery, data visualization, and mobile app technologies.” Here’s Twitter’s own description of how MIT will use its data: The Laboratory for Social Machines anticipates using Twitter data to investigate the rapidly changing and intersecting worlds of news, government and collective action. The hope...
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