[News & Analysis] Social Science: Twitter Offers Entire Data Pool, but Some Wary of Diving In

With the announcement of its new Data Grants program, Twitter is inviting academic researchers to propose experiments that take advantage of the full "firehose" of its 500 million daily tweets. But some researchers worry that the terms of the deal give Twitter ownership of their ideas.
Author: John Bohannon

Source: Science: This Week - February 28, 2014 Category: Science Authors: John Bohannon Tags: Social Science Source Type: research