{"id":52945,"date":"2014-10-02T08:41:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T08:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=52945"},"modified":"2014-10-02T08:41:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T08:41:43","slug":"mit-gets-usd-10-mln-to-analyse-every-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=52945","title":{"rendered":"MIT gets USD 10 mln to analyse every tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Twitter is giving MIT every tweet ever made publicly and USD 10 million so that the university&#8217;s Media Lab can study the spread of information, the New York Times reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MIT&#8217;s Media Lab will create a research group that will get access to Twitter&#8217;s entire feed of real-time and archived public tweets dating back to Jack Dorsey&#8217;s first in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Data scientists want to better understand how information spreads on Twitter and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>MIT Media Lab said it plans to build data visualizations, mobile apps and other tools to &#8220;create new forms of public communication and social organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is Twitter&#8217;s first financial foray into academic research. The USD 10 million commitment will be spread over five years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Telecompaper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is giving MIT every tweet ever made publicly and USD 10 million so that the university&#8217;s Media Lab can study the spread of information, the New York Times reported. MIT&#8217;s Media Lab will create a research group that will get access to Twitter&#8217;s entire feed of real-time and archived public tweets dating back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":5632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-52945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}