FBI using Twitter’s raw ’firehose’ data to monitor users
▻https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/15/fbi-twitter-dataminr-monitoring
Twitter has a closer relationship with Dataminr; it owns five percent of the firm and has given it a virtual monopoly on its data feed. As the FBI points out in a “limited source justification” document, “Dataminr is the only certified Official Twitter Data Partner with direct proprietary access to the full ’Twitter firehose’ which allows it to provide near real-time alerts of breaking news and events.”