MIT, I'll give you the money + let you look at all users Twitter

What position will Twitter give to the famous MIT Media Lab, the Media Lab? Well, countless well-known early investors squatting at the door of the hunting program provide 10 million dollars + access to all public tweets since 2006. Of course, not to do bad things, but to help each other more in-depth analysis of the value of tweets.

The subject of the research team in charge of the project, "Social Machine Lab" (Laboratory of Social Rogue), is understood to rely on large and authentic data that the team is expected to "create for individuals and institutions to identify, discuss, Launch a new platform for action.

At present, the research team's goal is not clear, but the group members seem to be more concerned about strengthening the SNS platform to reach a consensus:

"Path discovery and data visualization will be used to uncover interactive pathways and shared interests among the social systems involved," he said. ”

They added:

"The development of collaborative tools and mobile applications will promote new public communication and social organization." ”

With these tools, journalists like 36 of Krypton writers will be able to more systematically grasp the gist of the big hot tweets and grasp current trends.

MIT is not the first one to have an interest in Twitter's huge database. But this is the first time the little Bluebird has paid for the information. Believe that strong alliances will bring a different perspective-will the future of social interaction really be a new paradigm, as Media Lab people say?