[Air-L] TwitterDev on Twitch Today 1 PM EST

[Stuart Shulman]

There are significant changes underway to the opportunity landscape for
academic Twitter research. @TwitterDev has a practical session today at 1
PM EST on TwitchTV:

https://www.twitch.tv/twitterdev

We are working with non-technical academics who already have, or who are
seeking, this new academic access to help them form, test, and optimize
their queries before utilizing the generous allocation of this much sought
after historical Twitter data.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/petition/academic/is-it-right-for-you

This is a sea change moment for academic research using Twitter data. It
also comes with technical and management challenges, as well as legal and
ethical obligations, some of which are completely unfamiliar to recipients
of the new academic access keys. This can range from the practical steps of
gathering the raw JSON to the important act of displaying Tweets live in
the authentic Twitter display for analysis and classification. The visual
and network embeddedness of Tweets in the native Twitter display is
fundamental to make meaning of the textual content. Despite the many
indispensable daily uses for spreadsheets and Notepad++ when doing Twitter
analysis, once the content is transformed from JSON to a spreadsheet
format, it is only a Twitter derivative product and no longer Twitter
itself. The analysis of flat text outside the media-rich display is by
definition incomplete and out of context. Further, the live display ensures
Tweets deletions are hidden in real time and that content from suspended
accounts is not displayed. IRBs, professors, and ethics experts informing
the wider research community take note as it speaks directly to compliance.
We offer 3-4 free workshops a week on all of this:

https://www.discovertext.com/Workshops

~Stu