Twitter Inc. sold data access to the Cambridge University academic who also obtained millions of Facebook Inc. users’ information that was later passed to a political consulting firm without the users’ consent.
That firm was granted access to large-scale public Twitter data, covering months of posts, for one day in 2015, according to Twitter.
“Based on the recent reports, we conducted our own internal review and did not find any access to private data about people who use Twitter.”.
Twitter provides certain companies, developers and users with access to public data through its application programming interfaces (APIs), or software that requests and delivers information.
Enterprise customers are given the broadest data access, which includes the last 30 days of tweets or access to tweets from as far back as 2006.
Twitter doesn’t sell private direct messaging data, and users must opt in to have their tweets include a location.
The latter has said that Cambridge Analytica, which worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, may have harvested data on 87 million users. »
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