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

Thu Sep 10 06:39:07 PDT 2020

There is some scholarship on the various options which have continued to
evolve over time with respect to Twitter.
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/3/864

I agree that there is usually sufficient free, real time data to gather
from Twitter to reach saturation on most real time current research
questions.

My personal experience with the cost and regulation of historical Twitter
access for academia is a cautionary tale. Most of what academics want to
study, and often the way they do it, violates the clear language of the
Twitter Terms of Service and also the increasingly widespread right to be
forgotten. If you are storing spreadsheets of Twitter data that includes
over time more and more material from deleted accounts or deleted Tweets,
this is problematic from a legal perspective and raises ethical review
questions that should not be glossed over in any wikileaks fashion by
journal editors or university ethics officers.

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On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 9:24 AM Peter Joseph Gloviczki PhD <
pgloviczki at coker.edu> wrote:

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