If you have academic research credentials, get your data today, or better yet, now: https://developer.twitter.com/apitools/downloader The academic team was fired along with many others who tried to hold together the good, ingenious, and charitable parts of Twitter. Content moderation is about to be relegated to a new form of threatening public intimidation by the crowd. If you need help figuring out the downloader tool, or how this may impact your research, please set up a meeting: https://calendly.com/discovertext This is not a prediction, but I cannot assure users of our software that free access to the Twitter Search API (running now for 12 years uninterrupted) via DiscoverText will still exist after Monday. The discussions I have been inside with surviving, departing, and departed Twitter personnel are bleak, but animated by expressions of support, resistance, and moving on together. As a political scientist and election warden, I am concerned about the imminent deluge of threats, violence, and false information after the midterms. The stage is set for a lot of weird stuff to drop Monday on Twitter. -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*