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It is possible for residents of the EU to request from Twitter all of the data it has stored about them in accordance with European data protection laws (just follow the steps). Some Twitter users have requested their data and filled in the necessary paperwork. After a while they have gotten all of their records including a file with all of their tweets in it.

Here are step-by-step instructions for people based in the European Union to follow to discover what data Twitter has about them. The entire process takes just a few minutes.1) Send an e-mail to privacy@twitter.com that includes the following text:

An evaluation matrix was created which declared Protocol Buffers the winner. Protocol Buffers won because it allows data to be split across different nodes; it is reusable for data other than just tweets (logs, file storage, RPC, etc); it parses efficiently; fields can be added, changed, and deleted without having to change deployed code; the encoding is small; it supports hierarchical relationships. All the other options failed one or more of these criteria.

This is a single Python Script that does the work for you: collecting the appropriate METAR file(s), comparing it to the latest report posted on Twitter, and if it changed, update the Twitter account status (and saving this latest on disk for later comparison).

Pushing METAR data on Twitter

In 140 chars: Twitter Data lets people embed bits of data in their tweets so that computers can read the data and do cool stuff #twitterdata

If enough 'social weather' data is aggregated it can be used to form a multi-dimensional picture of the weather and the effect is has on our lives.