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

[Andrew Long]

Are there any implications from using RSS feeds on Twitter search or Twitter profiles to "redistribute" tweets? 

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From: Michael Zimmer [zimmerm at uwm.edu]
Sent: Friday, 6 May 2011 02:25
To: stuart.shulman at gmail.com
Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Twitter Data Sharing Update - Thou Shalt Not Share Collections of Tweets

It appears the Twitter API doesn't care if you're selling or giving it away, as I.4.a prohibits any attempt to "sell, rent, lease, sublicense, redistribute, or syndicate access to the Twitter API or Twitter Content to any third party without prior written approval from Twitter", as well as noting that "Exporting Twitter Content to a datastore as a service or other cloud based service, however, is not permitted"

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms

I'm not justifying their terms, but it does appear that you violated them.

-mz


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On May 5, 2011, at 7:24 AM, 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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