This is correct. And the original agreements between LoC and Twitter note a 6-month lag in making tweets available. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Co-Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On May 5, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Amanda Lenhart wrote:
As far as I know (via casual conversation with a friend who works on the project), the Library of Congress is still figuring out storage and access issues around their Twitter collection - I would not expect to have access to that data for some time, and when it does come, you will most likely need to work with someone at the LOC to have them manage your request.
-Amanda Amanda Lenhart Pew Research Center alenhart@pewinternet.org
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Richard Forno Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 9:38 AM To: stuart.shulman@gmail.com Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Data Sharing Update - Thou Shalt Not Share Collections of Tweets
IIRC Twitter was sending regular data dumps to the Library of Congress. If that's the case, why not see if you can snag/grab/analyse the LoC's collection of UBL tweets instead? I would think that the LoC, unlike Twitter, would welcome such scholarly activities.
-- rick
On May 5, 2011, at 08:24 , Stuart Shulman wrote:
Twitter closed down our efforts to share post-Osama bin Laden Twitter data (or any other collections) for research purposes, again citing their TOS & API TOS.
To be clear: we were giving the data away, not selling it. Also, it was not scraped of Twitter. Rather, it was gathered using a Twitter-authorized account and an API that lets us fetch 1500 items at a time.
It is a shame that the now 2 million tweets cannot, for example, be sampled and coded using a crowd source model. Or could they?
I am assuming the provision against sharing data does not extend to individuals who gather it and keep it to themselves or work with it in a research team.
~Stu
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