Twitter gives MIT $10 million and access to every public tweet

Twitter is opening up its vault for researchers at MIT’s Media Lab, and it’s giving them $10 million to try and glean some insights from the deluge of tweets. The team of researchers, working under the title “Laboratory of Social Machines,” will have access to Twitter’s highly valuable “fire hose” of live public tweets, as well as archives of every public 140-character-or-less utterance posted to the service since its founding in 2006.