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

[Monica Murero]

Great Initiative, Amanda!
Congratulations to you and to the "someone at Twitter" for trying to  
give access to academics/no-prof to Twitter data.

(I am writing you off-list regarding my professional interests).

Best,
Monica

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Monica Murero , Ph.D.
AoIR Exec, 2003-2009; AoIR Treasurer, 2005-2009
AoIR Lifetime Member

Director E-Life International Institute
Associate Professor in Politics of e-Government
and in Sociology of New Technology
University Federico II, Italy
Consultant, World Health Organization
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Il giorno 07/mar/11, alle ore 16:55, Amanda Lenhart ha scritto:

> On Friday, I had a conversation at conference with someone I know  
> who works at Twitter. We talked about this exact issue. And while  
> Twitter can't change back the API because of other problems the  
> change was fixing, she would very much like to give academics and  
> non-profit researchers access to Twitter data. However, she has to  
> push through a proposal internally to make this happen. She said it  
> would help her make the case if I could tell her what parts of the  
> data set researchers wanted to access.
>
> I offered to ping the AoIR list to get a sense of what people want  
> and need from Twitter to be able to do/continue their research.
>
> Also, one thing my friend did mention -- because Twitter data can  
> never be fully anonymized, there might be some limitations on what  
> kind of analysis you could do - mostly along the lines of limits on  
> analysis that would reveal information about the individual that  
> they had not made explicit and which might be harmful (e.g. Using  
> network analysis to speculate on users' sexual orientation).
>
> So, please email me off-list and I'll compile the types of data  
> requests and send them along to my Twitter friend.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Amanda
>
>
> Amanda Lenhart
> Pew Research Center
> alenhart at pewinternet.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Devin Gaffney
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 2:43 PM
> To: Rhiannon Bury
> Cc: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter no longer allowing use for scholarship
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> I just came across this article via RWW twitter feed:
>>
>> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_recent_changes_to_twitters_terms_of_service_mi.php
>>
>>
>> Does anyone here know anything more or has anyone been directly  
>> affected?
>>
>> Rhiannon
>>
>>
>> Rhiannon Bury, PhD
>> Associate Professor,
>> Women's and Gender Studies
>> Athabasca University
>> Canada's Open University
>> rbury at athabascau.ca
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