Twitter Sees a Surge in Government Information Requests
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 15:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Twitter sees itself as the digital incarnation of the town square, eliminating time and distance as barriers to unfiltered communication among citizens . In this role as the world’s unofficial open idea exchange (in 140 characters or less, of course), the company is finding that governments, law enforcement agencies and even its own Twitterverse are increasingly holding it accountable for how people use its microblogging service. [More]