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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