{"id":4934,"date":"2014-11-06T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2014-10-05T17:05:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T01:05:19","slug":"social-media-dissecting-and-analyzing-the-complete-twitter-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/social-media-dissecting-and-analyzing-the-complete-twitter-stream\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media: Dissecting and Analyzing the Complete Twitter Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has announced that it is funding a\u00a0Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM) at MIT initially with $10 million. \u00a0LSM will run as a five-year project that is dedicated to analyzing a complete archive of Twitter content, including every tweet ever made, dating all the way back to the first one sent by Jack Dorsey.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dick Costolo bio\" href=\"www.linkedin.com\/pub\/dick-costolo\/3\/126\/b74\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Costolo<\/a>, CEO of\u00a0Twitter, said that the investment in LSM will fund\u00a0&#8220;research to understand the role Twitter and other platforms play in the way people communicate, the effect that rapid and fluid communication can have and apply those findings to complex social issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the goals of the LSM project at MIT include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop techniques to analyze social systems<\/li>\n<li>Build collaboration tools to allows groups to debate, create shared goals and enable organization<\/li>\n<li>Deploy social machines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Deb Roy bio\" href=\"www.linkedin.com\/pub\/deb-roy\/4\/a64\/662\" target=\"_blank\">Deb Roy<\/a>, an associate professor at the Media Lab who will lead the LSM, <a title=\"MIT Media Lab quote\" href=\"http:\/\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/2014\/twitter-funds-mit-media-lab-program-1001\" target=\"_blank\">said that<\/a> &#8220;the Laboratory for Social Machines will experiment in areas of public communication and social organization where humans and machines collaborate on problems that can\u2019t be solved manually or through automation alone. \u00a0Social feedback loops based on analysis of public media and data can be an effective catalyst for increasing accountability and transparency \u2014 creating mutual visibility among institutions and individuals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fsocial-media-dissecting-and-analyzing-the-complete-twitter-stream%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" 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