[Air-L] Twitter academic API still collects data

[Stuart Shulman]

It seems like the Twitter Search API is still serving free data as of the
last few hours. Is anyone seeing or hearing anything different? The email
to developers said all the free APIs, including the academic API, and the
elevated access developer API, were going to be shut down today and
replaced with the new thing (TBD). I suppose it is still morning in
California but we are still waiting for the unveiling of the new terms for
the new thing, which sounds like it may be a $100/month credential
that users purchase and then deploy to access or deliver data from or to
Twitter. There is an ineluctable complexity to what is about to happen on
the level of platform technology. I am guessing there is no simple "off
switch" granular enough yet. Maybe later today a lot of systems will go
dark. Or...[?]


On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 12:33 PM Shulman, Stu via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> The API changes were delayed until after the Super Bowl. There is a
> somewhat rational actor somewhere in the SpaceX dust and fumes. I still
> have no clear picture if the Academic API is slated to be degraded. Does
> anyone? The free Search API is operating normally as of this moment. The
> pushback has been impressive. Taking the long view, I think the rush to
> look beyond Twitter without a clear picture of what is happening or why is
> premature. No matter what the new policy is, studying the impact of
> Twitter, even if you need a grant to do it, will remain important until the
> system goes offline or social movements cease to use it, or elections no
> longer hinge on whether accounts can Tweet and delete and Tweet using
> automation to sway algorithmic rankings, etc. We all have examples of
> strange things happening on Twitter that seem to matter. We have a duty to
> study it, even if there are charges that are likely analogous to the cost
> of interviews, field work, focus groups, surveys, and other traditional
> $-first results later research.
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 12:02 PM Yiran Duan via Air-L <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Magically, Twitter academic API is still collecting tweets for me as of
> > today. Is it the same case for you all?
> >
> > Best,
> > Yiran Duan
> > PhD student
> > Syracuse University
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