Twitter data

After Facebook, LinkedIn suffers data leak of 500 million users

Social networks including Facebook and Twitter have been under fire over how they handle user privacy across their platforms. In 2019, Facebook reached a landmark settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission over its investigation into allegations the company misused user data.

Apr 09, 2021, 22:03 PM IST

Twitter data unreliable to understand popular emotions

With over 300 million monthly active users around the globe sharing their thoughts in 140 characters or less, studies based on Twitter data are "particularly alluring" to researchers and the media, said sociology expert Eric Jensen, from the University of Warwick in the UK.

Sep 08, 2017, 12:35 PM IST