Twitter, MIT Create New Research Lab to Analyze Every Tweet

By: Yoree Koh | WSJ

Twitter TWTR +3.84% is giving every tweet ever made publicly to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the name of research.

With a $10 million investment from Twitter, data scientists at MIT’s Media Lab are creating a new research group that will get access to Twitter’s entire feed of real-time and archived public tweets dating back to Jack Dorsey’s first in 2006.