Twitter Can Be Used To Predict Crime [STUDY]

Anything you tweet can and will be used against you in a court of law. At least, that’s what a new study proposes.

As Business Insider reports, researchers from the University of Virginia discovered that tweets can be used to predict certain types of crimes.

By analysing geo-located tweets, these researchers found that tweet were useful in predicting between 19 to 25 different types of crimes, including stalking, theft and assault.

Lead researcher, Matthew Gerber, says that people aren’t necessarily tweeting about crimes directly.