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I wonder why the NYTimes only publishes this data for Twitter users. It's not like it would be hard to store it for everyone...
by JoachimSchipper 16y ago
I wonder why the NYTimes only publishes this data for Twitter users. It's not like it would be hard to store it for everyone...
- simonk 16y agoAt the end you could start over and do it again. If you published to Twitter the could count that as 1 person, you may of done it on the NYTimes site 5 or 10 times before doing that though.
- zbanks 16y agoIts easy to scrape the data post mortem from twitter users, since NYT gave them specific links. I imagine they didnt think to record users data until it was too late: twitter happened to have a log available.
- donohoe 16y agoJust a guess - but might have gone against the privacy policy. At no point did it mention it would collect and aggregate data. But once you tweet it then it's in public view then... Plus it's easier to map 1 verified twitter user to a real person.