[Air-L] TayTweets Dataset?

[Cory Salveson]

It's not much, but Archive.org has multiple snapshots of tweets here
<https://web.archive.org/web/20160324022856*/https://mobile.twitter.com/TayandYou>
starting March 24. It lacks the extended metadata available via the API,
but it's better than nothing.

In case someone out there did do a more complete capture, I put out a
request on the "datasets" subreddit here
<https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/4f3hmx/request_taytweets_tayandyou_archive/>,
and there's also a Quora question (from somebody else) here
<https://www.quora.com/Have-TayTweetss-tweets-been-archived>. If anything
surfaces, maybe one or both of these spots will get updated.

If nothing else, the unavailability of these tweets is itself interesting.
Others can advance a more nuanced analysis than me here, but for example, I
wonder: on what basis are we as researchers "blocked" from accessing the
tweets? I assume Twitter still technically has them in their databases
somewhere, so isn't this essentially Twitter respecting Microsoft's --
maybe even Tay's -- right to privacy under the Twitter TOS, like any other
user? If so, then are all Twitter users really created equally with respect
to privacy, or should some actors, as is the case for public figures
generally, enjoy less? In other words, should the public be allowed to
request these tweets directly from Twitter? Etc.

Cory Salveson
http://corysalveson.com

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Kishonna Gray <kishonnagray at gmail.com>
wrote:

> this would have been great to capture them. i have archived some from the
> associated hashtags. so if anyone did, that would be amazing. "meltdown" is
> an understatement.
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Heinz, Lisa <ls144009 at ohio.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hello... I wondered if someone on this list was able to capture all of
> > Microsoft's Tay bot's tweets and mentions from the time it went live
> until
> > it was shut down, March 23-24? I did not get my collector setup in time,
> so
> > I am looking for someone who collected Tay's original tweets and
> mentions,
> > and who would be willing to share them.  I am primarily interested in the
> > avatar's meltdown as an historical marker in the adoption of this
> > technology.
> >
> >
> > ~~Lisa
> >
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Lisa Heinz
> > PhD Student in Mass Communication
> > E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
> > Ohio University, Scripps College of Communication
> > Twitter<http://twitter.com/livingrural>
> > LinkedIn<http://linkedin.com/in/lisaheinz>
> >
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