Ditto + my IRB required that identifying info be removed and separated from the actual tweet + no identities would be used in the write up. Had to explain and emphasize "public" as initially it was not accepted. On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Kevin Guidry <krguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> wrote:
How are IRBs responding to research proposals involving Tweets?
My IRB seemed happy to make my most recent study exempt with the rationale that all of the material I was studying was publicly-accessible.
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