Twitter Grant Winners Include Harvard Foodborne Illness Researchers
The social networking platform Twitter has announced the winners of its inaugural data grants program, which will give selected research institutions access to the entire history of tweets related to their research topics. One of the six institutions, Harvard Medical School (in conjunction with Boston Children's Hospital), plans to use the Twitter data to study foodborne illness.
In making the announcement on Twitter's blog yesterday, Raffi Krikorian, vice president of platform engineering, said,