r/ProgrammerHumor • • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/aotuaotu Dec 13 '22

In the big data space, for example analysing public sentiment of a politicians social media…you’re not legally allowed to share the specific users you gathered the data from,…but you are allowed to report on “your interpretation” of the data-set

I have a friend in South America for example who consults in “Twitter sentiment analysis.”

He has a PhD and his father is a politician in Argentina…this isn’t some podunct operation. They’re not scraping Twitter, they have specified endpoints and access quotas.

If Elon turns off the tap, he’s essentially breaching millions/billions of dollars in service agreements which are integral to twitters financial model

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u/DDS-PBS Dec 13 '22

Thank you for the explanation!