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by ig1 4762 days ago
"Meanwhile, the BBC has learned that Twitter was invited to join the Prism programme last year, but rejected the approach from US authorities."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22824379

1 comments

What would be the point? The vast majority of the data is public, and Twitter will give you firehose access (essentially a stream of all tweets) if you ask nicely.
IP addresses that access accounts might be of interest.
And direct messages, if anyone uses that feature.
Ah, I didn't know that was possible on twitter, that makes a lot of sense.
DMs are quite common.