Custom Project Support Services - Twitter/X Data
For now, we are able to support custom research projects using Twitter/X data from the last 12 months. If you would like to learn more about our fee-for-service offer, please book a meeting to discuss the options. We provide DiscoverText software for free via the Web to academics and charge hourly rates for project management and data access services. I cannot say how long the Twitter/X data access will remain in place; it is there now and robust. Book a meeting here: https://calendly.com/discovertext With DiscoverText, you can search, filter, cluster, sample, human code and machine classify hundreds of thousands or millions of Tweets. Teams build reusable, transparent, shareable, crowdsource annotation models. Project managers measure and report inter-rater reliability. Leaders or groups adjudicate human disagreements to improve human and machine learning. This previous feature (adjudication) is by far the most important (and least used/understood) piece in our methods toolkit. It is the reason I got into building software. When two or more annotators disagree, an opportunity to learn, evolve, and grow the team and model emerges. The beneficial byproducts of iterative annotation/adjudication cycles are noteworthy. In DiscoverText, Tweets are displayed in the Twitter/X live display with media previews and images embedded in the interface. Replies show the original Tweet and the reply in the display. Deleted and suspended posts are not displayed; we check in real time. Numerous list members have either used or contributed to the development of the toolkit going back to 2011. The tools were derived from a decade of NSF-funded interdisciplinary research (2000-2010) with computer scientists, statisticians, social scientists. If you want to get a Twitter/X project up and running, we can help. Twitter/X is awash in things that should be studied and better understood inside and beyond academia. Phenomena like this: https://discovertext.com/mentions/ If you want to write a paper lamenting how free Twitter data is gone and only free data will suffice, I suggest talking to everyone who ever put a serious survey in the field, ran focus groups, or did interviews, about the nature of free versus earned data. We wrote grant proposals for all of that. A solution is on the table; there are others. It is factually inaccurate, though fashionable, to say the Twitter/X data is not accessible, for now. ~Stu --- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, Journal of Information Technology & Politics
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Stuart Shulman