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> Twitter said its data-retention policies made it unable to reconcile the figures for periods before last year’s fourth quarter. Is Twitter really claiming th
by jack6e 9y ago
> Twitter said its data-retention policies made it unable to reconcile the figures for periods before last year’s fourth quarter.
Is Twitter really claiming that they do not store even aggregated data on number of users for more than a year? Or does the data prior to that not have any distinction between Twitter and third-party users that could be used to correct their error? I would be amazed if a social media platform of that size had such weak retention policies, even for their own sake. Maybe I am too used to the paradigm of Google/FB where data is gold stored in Fort Knox.
- samstave 9y agoSo, recall when it was stated that twitter was connecting its firehose to the library of congress for all tweets to be stored in there? Yeah - WHY would this country want that? Oh, I see now - twitter is crack for lunatic presidents and they now need to store that there... Sentiment mining is the new hotness.
- ben_jones 9y agoIf I was in PR I'd probably swing it as "We derive analytics from normal database records therefore we don't store analytics data specifically but can pull it when we need it cough"
- scarface74 9y agoWell. At least they didn't claim that they couldn't gather statistics on the salary of their current employees like Google did...