[Air-L] Twitter no longer allowing use for scholarship

[Devin Gaffney]

Yes, basically the hammer has come down on services like mine (140kit) and others (TwapperKeeper, The Archivist). We can no longer export raw data catalogs to researchers. Researchers can, of course, collect their own data, but REST access to the API has been effectively shut down for any newcoming researchers (they will no longer whitelist IPs for that service, which upped the requests/hr from 150 to 20,000). Stream and Search have been unaffected, it seems. Basically, the implication in the article is that researchers who don't have access to code or need that REST pipeline are effectively shut out. Our solution, which is located in PDF form on our site (http://140kit.com), basically involves analytics sharing among researchers in place of raw data catalogs, and perhaps raw data catalog access when you're actually publishing something on a case-by-case basis. It's not the best solution, but it will work, as Twitter has ok'd it. I just got off the phone with Twapper Keeper, and we have tentatively agreed to figure out a system where the data on his site is analyzed and at least maintained for everyone.

Devin

On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Rhiannon Bury wrote:

> Ooops, meant to send to the list. Sorry for the spam. 
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> From: Rhiannon Bury <rcbury at rogers.com>
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 12:26:00 PM
> Subject: Twitter no longer allowing use for scholarship
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> I just came across this article via RWW twitter feed:
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> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_recent_changes_to_twitters_terms_of_service_mi.php
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> Does anyone here know anything more or has anyone been directly affected?
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> Rhiannon 
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> Rhiannon Bury, PhD
> Associate Professor,
> Women's and Gender Studies
> Athabasca University
> Canada's Open University
> rbury at athabascau.ca
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