twitter gonna sell all your tweets for cash to corporations who want to data mine you?

[msongs]

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/microsoft_and_google_flirt_twitters_datamining_deals

Twitter is negotiating to sell all your tweet message to corporations so they can use what you wrote to market you.

Nice, eh?

Next will Yahoo and Windows live record all your chats for data mining

Hmm,

Msongs

[Initech]

1. I think this clip is appropriate here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

[dbonds]

2. Who couldn't see this coming.

[omega minimo]

3. People who were too busy tweeting?

:shrug:

[customerserviceguy]

4. Nobody really thought all this social networking crap was free, did they?

Why would someone spend megabucks providing a playground for people if they weren't going to take pictures of it to sell?

[petronius]

5. IIRC, it was one of the Twitter founders who was on Colbert about a year ago,

and Colbert was grilling him about how exactly they planned to turn a profit. I guess we have (part of) the answer...

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. BFD

They can market me all they want. I still have enough free will to make up my mind about what I want to purchase.

[lbrtbell]

7. My tweets are mostly about the good folks at MSNBC

So if a corporation sees that I'm tweeting about Keith, Rachel, Ana Marie Cox, Craig Crawford, etc., does that mean they'll advertise on MSNBC to reach me?

No wonder Keith refuses to use Twitter. The people in charge of it are a$$holes.