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

[Ulf-Dietrich Reips]

To me it seems the owners of Internet-based services go too far 
sometimes in claiming rights to authors' content. To vary an old 
Internet metaphor: An owner of a road should not be entitled to claim 
royalties to pictures of cars that have driven over the road.

Eventually it may boil down to something like this: you may publish 
collections of tweets, but they will have to be stripped from any 
service-specific "marks" (e.g. hashtags).

Best --u

At 9:51 Uhr -0500 5.5.2011, Michael Zimmer wrote:
>Stu-
>
>I'm not in full agreement with your starting point that tweets 
>"yearn to be free".  I think the nature of the platform (140 
>character limit, broadcast as one voice among millions of accounts, 
>viewed via a live stream that makes it almost impossible to read 
>every single one) also supports the notion that tweets are meant to 
>be fleeting.
>
>-michael
>
>
>
>>  On May 5, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Stuart Shulman wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Michael,
>>>
>>>  We did not contest the violation warning and so we took the data 
>>>down. The policy is another matter. These are tweets that yearn to 
>>>be free, insofar as tweets can collectively yearn for anything:
>>>
>>>  http://bit.ly/ixJVHu
>>>
>>>  In this instance, I find myself liking the Facebook policy, which 
>>>in an opposite manner sets data free. This may explain, in part, 
>>>why the "Scraping Facebook" video seems to be getting more views 
>>>than the one on harvesting Twitter tweets:
>>>
>>>  http://www.screencast.com/t/iW3rvdYY
>>>
>>>  ~Stu
>>>
>>>  On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Michael Zimmer <zimmerm at uwm.edu> wrote:
>>>  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
>>>
>>>
>>>  --
>>>  Michael Zimmer, PhD
>>>  Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
>>>  Co-Director, Center for Information Policy Research
>>>  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>>>  e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
>>>  w: www.michaelzimmer.org
>>>
>>>
>>>  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
>>>>
>>>>  --
>>>>
>>>>  Stuart Shulman
>>>>  President & CEO
>>>>  Texifter, LLC <http://www.texifter.com/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Have you tried DiscoverText?
>>>>  http://discovertext.com
>>>>  *Featuring the Facebook Graph & Twitter APIs*
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