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Twitter Invests In MIT's Social Machines

Twitter is investing $10 million in a new group called Laboratory for Social Machines at the MIT Media Lab. The five-year grant will come with access to the Twitter firehose, and historical data going back to the first tweet ever sent.  The group will be led by Deb Roy, associate professor at the Media Lab and co-founder of Cambridge startup BlueFin Labs, which Twitter acquired in 2013.

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