[Air-L] Twitter Data Sharing Update - Thou Shalt Not Share Collections of Tweets

[Stuart Shulman]

Twitter closed down our efforts to share post-Osama bin Laden Twitter data
(or any other collections) for research purposes, again citing their TOS &
API TOS.

http://bit.ly/l8DSA3

To be clear: we were giving the data away, not selling it. Also, it was not
scraped of Twitter. Rather, it was gathered using a Twitter-authorized
account and an API that lets us fetch 1500 items at a time.

It is a shame that the now 2 million tweets cannot, for example, be sampled
and coded using a crowd source model. Or could they?

I am assuming the provision against sharing data does not extend to
individuals who gather it and keep it to themselves or work with it in a
research team.

~Stu

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Stuart Shulman
President & CEO
Texifter, LLC <http://www.texifter.com/>


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