[Air-L] Things are moving fast - Twitter update

[Shulman, Stu]

If you have academic research credentials, get your data today, or better
yet, now:
https://developer.twitter.com/apitools/downloader

The academic team was fired along with many others who tried to hold
together the good, ingenious, and charitable parts of Twitter. Content
moderation is about to be relegated to a new form of threatening public
intimidation by the crowd.

If you need help figuring out the downloader tool, or how this may impact
your research, please set up a meeting:
https://calendly.com/discovertext

This is not a prediction, but I cannot assure users of our software that
free access to the Twitter Search API (running now for 12 years
uninterrupted) via DiscoverText will still exist after Monday. The
discussions I have been inside with surviving, departing, and departed
Twitter personnel are bleak, but animated by expressions of support,
resistance, and moving on together.

As a political scientist and election warden, I am concerned about the
imminent deluge of threats, violence, and false information after the
midterms. The stage is set for a lot of weird stuff to drop Monday on
Twitter.

-- 
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Founder and CEO, Texifter
Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*