6M more tweets analyzed over the last 2 months — In April, I wrote about my attempt to demystify Twitter censorship. Since then, I recruited some fellow engineers to help scrape more tweets. We now have analyzed over 15M tweets from Twitter’s API. The table below shows how many of the tweets scraped were “deleted.” As you can see, tweets…

A review of more than 600,000 deleted tweets leads to more questions than answers — The volume of data being produced in the information age has led to an age of uncertainty. In order to interpret this Big Data into information, network platforms, such as Twitter, curate content in a way they feel is valuable for their users. In order to facilitate this process, platforms…

Is it spelled gray or grey? Yes. — My objective with theGræy is to offer assurance that technology’s influence on us is transparent. I am partial to the role of assurance because I worked as an auditor for over a decade. I found myself in high demand coming out of my undergrad studies with a degree in Accounting…