U.S. intelligence agencies may now needย to manually sift through tweets toย hunt for clues about threats.
Twitter is no longer lettingย government intelligenceย agencies use Dataminr, the onlyย service that the social media platformย grantsย full access to the full breadth of tweets posted on the platform, in monitoringย emerging events, according to a Wall Street Journal report, citing aย senior U.S. intelligence official and other people familiar with the matter. Twitter owns a 5 percent stake in Dataminr.
In a statement, Twitter said that Dataminr uses public Tweets to sell breaking news alerts to media organizations for non-surveillance purposes.