Twitter Privacy Debate

For years companies have been combing through Twitter postings, trying to glean any information that may help them improve their products and services.

Now Twitter is going to sell its old tweets and a Colorado company is helping them analyze the data.The social media site is partnering with Gnip, a data mining company, to license its historical Tweets.

Twitter says it won’t have access to deleted tweets or users’ direct messages. But because Twitter is a public forum, privacy watchdogs may face difficulties raising privacy objections.