Twitter Was Watched for Security Threats During Obamas Inauguration

The Presidential Inauguration Committee worked with Twitter monitoring firm Dataminr to detect potential security threats during President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony last week, Mashable has learned.

Dataminr's team discovered one such potential problem -- an entrance gate that was unexpectedly closed -- and notified the Presidential Inauguration Committee ten minutes before it got word of the situation from more conventional means.

"They were able to use that warning to actually take action and preempt the situation before it escalated," said Dataminr CEO Ted Bailey in an interview with Mashable. "The situation was there was a sudden gate closure and there was the start of a…
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