[Air-L] Downloading Twitter feeds

Wed Apr 19 14:34:20 PDT 2023

I can confirm that the Academic API v2 for Twitter is working, at least outside US.

Use a python library like Tweepy and a code like the following you can get a stream of data from tweets in US. You will need to create a project in the Dev Dashboard and add your previous Apps to the project. The project should have been created for research purposes and the app too:

import tweepy
import operator

class MyStream2(tweepy.StreamingClient):

    def on_tweet(self, tweet):
        print(tweet.text)

streaming_client = MyStream2(BEARER_TOKEN)
res = streaming_client.get_rules()
if res.data:
    rules = list(map(operator.attrgetter("id"),res.data))
    streaming_client.delete_rules(rules)
streaming_client.add_rules(tweepy.StreamRule("place_country:US"))
streaming_client.filter()

Marc

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The answer is complex, uncertain, and shifting. It is more than just a technical issue of "Where can I get data now?" There are fundamental legal, jurisdictional, market, equity, and political questions unresolved. Resolution seems unlikely in the short term. As a political scientist interested in election interference, I do not anticipate a positive resolution before the 2024 U.S. election. I would love to be wrong on that prediction. I have heard there are a few firms that retain agreements to market real time and historical Twitter data. You might ask your librarian about access to Crimson Hexagon, Meltwater, or other similar services with long term agreements Mr. Musk has not broken, yet. Nobody on the AIR-L list has confirmed whether the academic API is shut down. Is it? I don't have those credentials to check.

As I have written previously, there are massive troves of Tweets in every computer science department and many social science departments.
Any one of the raw JSON Tweet archives could be loaded into a free account on DiscoverText and then shared for teaching or research. Talk to the data folks on your campus and across your discipline about what is extant. Do not look for spreadsheets; find the raw JSON.
Spreadsheets are significantly degraded historical objects that cannot be considered accurate representations of Tweets. Tweets live in the Twitter display and die in spreadsheets. I remain befuddled by the Python/R nexus. Those spreadsheets of Tweets simply are not Twitter.
Any qualitative researcher knows what I mean. Meaning is produced in the interaction of the display elements. Meaning is destroyed, diluted, and bent out of shape in spreadsheets.

The loss of real time access to new data is a problem and dangerous for democratic systems. This does not change the fact that so much data has been gathered and stored, like so many old newspapers. For example, here is a list of the Top 50 datasets in my DiscoverText account that any academic on this list or anywhere in the world can access via the "peer network" that enables collaboration, annotation, measurement of inter-rater reliability, and the creation of gold standard training sets for machine-learning via a graphical user interface that features the Twitter display.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j-Y40WmwFIX8pidfAcxgAt5JB3A3UyB2psh_ULQdynA/edit?usp=sharing

"The Case Against Spreadsheets as a Primary Twitter Research Tool"
https://vimeo.com/526218014
Question: When is a Tweet not a Tweet? Answer: When it appears in a spreadsheet, or is deleted, or the account has been suspended.

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> Hi Rotem and All,
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> I am also looking for solutions to this. I hope somebody has an idea 
> of how to keep doing research on Twitter.
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a way to download the feeds (historical tweets 
> > and
> > re-tweets) of Twitter users? Is scraping for example using Data 
> > Miner a good idea?
> > With the changes to Twitter's API rules, API-based websites such as 
> > Vicinitas.io have stopped working (or will stop soon), and I'm 
> > looking
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> > other approaches.
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