About seven million people in Britain use the social networking website to post short messages to followers.

Most believe their tweets are unavailable to those outside their chosen network after a week because that is when they can no longer be searched for on the site.

But Twitter has archived every tweet - there are about 250million a day - and has agreed a deal allowing the UK-based company Datasift to trawl through all those posted since January 2010.

Nick Pickles, director of the Big Brother Watch campaign group, said: "People may consider tweets to be personal property but this deal makes clear they are not"

YOU should kNOW by NOW that everything you put on the net, isn't yours anymore.
It belongs to "Earth Inc."

Posted: 9:47:59 AM