<story><title>Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies from Using Analytics Service</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-bars-intelligence-agencies-from-using-analytics-service-1462751682?mod=e2tw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npx</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not convinced that the goal here is actually to obstruct intelligence agencies, I think they&amp;#x27;d just use a shell company or flatly demand access if they wanted it. As far as I&amp;#x27;m aware, the Library of Congress is archiving all tweets.&lt;p&gt;It feels like a cheap way to generate press portraying Twitter as a staunch defender of liberty. I&amp;#x27;m not sold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StanislavPetrov</author><text>Couldn&amp;#x27;t agree more.  In addition to that, the NSA (among other government organizations) sniffs and logs all internet (including Twitter) traffic.  Given the unlimited resources of the government to sift, sort, and mine this data (thanks to our taxpayer dollars) it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be at all surprising if they didn&amp;#x27;t already construct a superior, parallel analytic system unconstrained by any of the regulations or financial restrictions faced by Twitter.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies from Using Analytics Service</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-bars-intelligence-agencies-from-using-analytics-service-1462751682?mod=e2tw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npx</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not convinced that the goal here is actually to obstruct intelligence agencies, I think they&amp;#x27;d just use a shell company or flatly demand access if they wanted it. As far as I&amp;#x27;m aware, the Library of Congress is archiving all tweets.&lt;p&gt;It feels like a cheap way to generate press portraying Twitter as a staunch defender of liberty. I&amp;#x27;m not sold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greglindahl</author><text>LOC was archiving in 2010, but that project is no longer going forward: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.politico.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;library-of-congress-twitter-archive-119698.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.politico.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;library-of-congress-tw...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>