Researchers rightly have a lot of questions about Twitter data access. Some of our updated answers are posted on Twitter. We encourage you to read and engage with this specific thread if this topic matters to you: https://twitter.com/discovertext/status/1643946603886026752?s=20 The most important thing to know is there are already millions of extant datasets stored in a raw JSON format on other computers, devices, and systems that could be loaded to DiscoverText or other systems for collaborative access and research. Going forward, the opportunities to collect unique, tailored, specific real time or historical data will be very sharply curtailed by Twitter. As time passes, archival questions of what remains and what is lost to history may track closely to the history of newspapers. I wrote a dissertation (1999) about crumbly newspapers from the Progressive Era. Some were available, others were not. This applies to Twitter data now and it always did. Some was preserved, much is lost or will be lost, even with serious archival efforts. I invite you to book a web meeting or send me a note if you have questions about what remains possible. I have curated thousands of Twitter datasets consisting of more than 300,000,000 Tweets. Others have much larger collections. There are important questions about what comes next in the history of information and how we work together to preserve research opportunities. Finally, there will be a small gaggle over drinks in Washington DC close to the Capitol after dinner April 13. Send me a note if you are local and want to join the conversation face to face about the politics of Twitter data. In years past, these discussions in DC have been lively. Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*
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