[Air-L] [External] Re: Buying tweets ?

[Peter Joseph Gloviczki PhD]

Deen makes a great point about sponsorship. I was referring to having to
use personal funds.

Fondly, Peter

Peter Joseph Gloviczki, PhD    he/him/his
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 9:20 AM Deen Freelon <dfreelon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have purchased tweets directly from Twitter on multiple occasions. I
> disagree with Dr. Gloviczki about paying research costs--some of the
> most rigorous research is sponsored. I wouldn't spend my own personal
> money on such costs, but if you've got funding, by all means use it.
>
> Twitter allows university-affiliated users to buy data in a few ways.
> I've primarily used their a la carte service (that's just what I call
> it), where you give them a set of search criteria (e.g. a keyword[s] and
> a time period) and they give you a quote. Pricing is based on the number
> of days covered and the total volume of tweets. Their minimum price is a
> little over $1k US and costs can quickly run into the five-figure range,
> especially if you want tweets over a lengthy period of time. Also, they
> have been known to refuse certain data requests, especially those
> related to international conflict. The criteria for "acceptable" data
> requests are not public--I've asked.
>
> Twitter does not advertise this service but it does exist. Fill out this
> form and ask about it:
>
> https://developer.twitter.com/en/products/twitter-api/enterprise/application
>
> The associated metadata are the same as provided through the standard
> APIs. These can be found here:
>
> https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/tweets/post-and-engage/api-reference/get-statuses-lookup
> Language tags are included, and geographic info is present only when
> users opt in, which is rare (typically 3-5% of tweets). I will also say
> that obtaining the data once purchased is not easy--they come as GZIPped
> JSON files packaged in 10-minute increments. So a year of data is far
> too much to download manually--you'd need to automate your download
> pipeline. I've written code to do this, so anyone who manages to
> successfully buy Twitter data may feel free to contact me to access my
> scripts.
>
> Twitter also offers a couple other data purchase options, including its
> Premium API
> (https://developer.twitter.com/en/products/twitter-api/premium-apis) and
> its Enterprise API
> (https://developer.twitter.com/en/products/twitter-api/enterprise#/).
> These charge pretty steep monthly fees and are oriented more toward
> corporate and other well-funded clients.
>
> Finally, here's their portal for academic researchers, which may have
> some relevant info:
>
> https://developer.twitter.com/en/solutions/academic-research/products-for-researchers
>
> Best, /DEEN
>
> On 9/10/2020 8:39 AM, Sandrine Roginsky wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > Help needed. Does anyone have experience with buying tweets from Twitter
> for research? We have a fairly specific query and would like to know which
> information is given about the tweets harvested through the query (e.g. is
> language or geographic information given for tweets, even if it isn't part
> of the query - so not a selection criterion)?
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Sandrine
> >
> >
> >
> > Sandrine Roginsky
> > Associate Professor
> >
> > Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, and Communication
> > Institute Language & Communication, PCOM / LASCO
> >
> >
> >
> >
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