The Dubious Ethics Of Twitter Mining

By Anne Thériault

A young woman named Zola told an epic 150-tweet story on Twitter about a harrowing trip she’d made to Florida with another woman, the woman’s fiancé, and her housemate. Clearly a deft storyteller, Zola managed to find humor in the situation even as she described abuse, coercion, and murder. The tweets were quickly Storified and began circulating on social media. By the next morning…