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The New Daily
Technology
Anjana Susarla

What the world would lose with the demise of Twitter: Raw data on human behaviour

Twitter itself produces a lot of data that’s available nowhere else.

What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tracks the spread of forest fires, and public health professionals trying to predict enrolment in health insurance exchanges have in common?

They all rely on analysing data from Twitter.

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