There are significant changes underway to the opportunity landscape for academic Twitter research. @TwitterDev has a practical session today at 1 PM EST on TwitchTV: https://www.twitch.tv/twitterdev We are working with non-technical academics who already have, or who are seeking, this new academic access to help them form, test, and optimize their queries before utilizing the generous allocation of this much sought after historical Twitter data. https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/petition/academic/is-it-right-for-yo... This is a sea change moment for academic research using Twitter data. It also comes with technical and management challenges, as well as legal and ethical obligations, some of which are completely unfamiliar to recipients of the new academic access keys. This can range from the practical steps of gathering the raw JSON to the important act of displaying Tweets live in the authentic Twitter display for analysis and classification. The visual and network embeddedness of Tweets in the native Twitter display is fundamental to make meaning of the textual content. Despite the many indispensable daily uses for spreadsheets and Notepad++ when doing Twitter analysis, once the content is transformed from JSON to a spreadsheet format, it is only a Twitter derivative product and no longer Twitter itself. The analysis of flat text outside the media-rich display is by definition incomplete and out of context. Further, the live display ensures Tweets deletions are hidden in real time and that content from suspended accounts is not displayed. IRBs, professors, and ethics experts informing the wider research community take note as it speaks directly to compliance. We offer 3-4 free workshops a week on all of this: https://www.discovertext.com/Workshops ~Stu