Why can't we use the same standards many researchers have applied to blogs and print pubs--namely, that quoting tweets is fair game unless the account is protected? Anonymizing the names isn't foolproof--the text can still be searched and the user still identified in some cases (Twitter's search API only covers the previous week, but there are other ways of figuring out who posted something based solely on the text). Moreover, the Library of Congress is archiving all public tweets permanently anyway. Exceptions may be necessary for very sensitive material, but in that case there probably shouldn't be any quoting at all given the non-trivial possibility of identification. In the majority of cases I see tweets as essentially the same as other types of online self-publication. ~DEEN On 1/25/2012 9:14 AM, Cornelius Puschmann wrote:
Daria,
assuming that the number of tweets is small and that you are not redistributing the data as such (something that Twitter doesn't like) you shouldn't really have any problems. Obtaining the user's permission and anonymizing the material will suffice in my opinion.
Best,
Cornelius
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Dayter<coocho@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear list members,
I am about to submit for publication an article that includes content analysis of tweets, and a few of them are quoted in my paper. I wonder if any kind of accepted practice exists already in this regard: do Twitter's new terms of service mean that I need to obtain a permission from Twitter to use tweets in the publication, or is it enough if I have the authors' permission? I apologise if this issue has been discussed already - I've joined the list recently, and I've only seen the very end of the Twitter ToS thread.
best daria
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