*Twitter puts trillions of tweets up for sale to data miners* /Company plans to make content generated by users available to commerce, academia and even police involved in crowd control/ Juliette Garside Wednesday 18 March 2015 You are travelling by plane to see your newborn grandchild. As you board the aircraft, the cabin crew address you by name and congratulate you on the arrival of a bouncing baby boy. On your seat, you find a gift-wrapped blue rattle with a note from the airline. In Twitter data strategy chief Chris Moody’s vision of the future, companies surprising their customers like this could become an everyday occurrence – made possible because Twitter is listening. Computer systems are already aggregating trillions of tweets from the microblogging site, sorting and sifting through countless conversations, following the banter and blustering, ideas and opinions of its 288 million users in search of commercial opportunities. […] Continua qui: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/18/twitter-puts-trillions-twe...