How To Protect Your Old Tweets From Big Data

Earlier this week, Twitter announced that it would allow individuals, developers, small businesses and corporations to buy access to historical tweets – a fact that has privacy advocates’ hackles up.

If you’re concerned with who’s reading your old tweets, here’s how to delete them and protect them from prying eyes.

Twitter will start selling access to tweets from as far back as January 2010 through its data partner, Datasift. The move means that any tweets from up to 2 years ago that you thought had disappeared into the ether have now been now unlocked for marketers to dig through.

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