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

[Richard Forno]

IIRC Twitter was sending regular data dumps to the Library of Congress.  If that's the case, why not see if you can snag/grab/analyse the LoC's collection of UBL tweets instead? I would think that the LoC, unlike Twitter, would welcome such scholarly activities. 

-- rick

On May 5, 2011, at 08:24 , Stuart Shulman wrote:

> 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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