[Air-L] Degraded and/or Dying Twitter APIs

[Radhika G]

Stu and Silvia - thankyou for your replies on this thread.

My Research Assistant and I have had success scraping
historical data  through a python script and as I said before the tokens
work fine via Gephi.

Sylvia - I too had the API tokens not work now and then but have figured
out what I did wrong as I frantically regenerated codes from my academic
research access account.

Stu - looking forward to the Discovertext announcement - my team waits with
bated breath:)

r
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Radhika Gajjala
Professor,
American Culture Studies Program
and
School of Media and Communication
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green Ohio



On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 3:19 AM Shulman, Stu <stu at texifter.com> wrote:

> Update: the web downloader is still gone and if I had to guess, forever.
> This was just a GUI in front of an API that does appear to be functioning.
> I think the people who built and maintained the web front end are no longer
> part of the scaled back Twitter staff. However, somebody is maintaining the
> API operation and Twitter still gives out elevated access to some API
> endpoints. For example, we asked for and received elevated API access
> specifically to offer a new application to academics and it was approved in
> three days. Watch this list for an imminent announcement about a new beta
> service that was actually designed and built in 2019 to detect bots and is
> just now getting to see the full light of day. The last step is to put it
> behind a GUI and TrustDefender will launch. I was more than a little
> surprised Twitter approved it, given what it shows about amplification
> actors and actions in the ecosystem. Spoiler alert, many of the strangest
> and least explained event timelines on Twitter are humans not machines.
> Trust but verify.
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 11:04 PM Silvia DalBen Furtado <
> silviadalben at utexas.edu> wrote:
>
>> I had some issues using Twitter API last week. I could not collect tweets
>> from January 8 and January 9, I then I start not trusting the data I was
>> collecting anymore.
>>
>> But I thought it could be something related to my account. Sorry I did
>> not read your message before.
>>
>> I am also talking with some folks about this issue, but I did not heard
>> from them if they also had this problem.
>>
>> Best, Silvia
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 3:51 PM Radhika G via Air-L <
>> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I see no one replied or took up this discussion…
>>>
>>> All I’m going to say is aaargh (yet the bearer token from twitter dev
>>> accounts are working on Gephi and some other places including I think at
>>> discovertext so I’ll wait and see…)
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> > On Jan 15, 2023, at 6:21 AM, Shulman, Stu via Air-L <
>>> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Does anyone know the full extent (or cause) of the current API
>>> degradation
>>> > at Twitter?
>>> >
>>> > The web front end for the "downloader" has been down for a bit now.
>>> > https://developer.twitter.com/apitools/downloader
>>> >
>>> > I have seen reports of other API issues. Is it broken, breaking bad,
>>> under
>>> > repair, getting a new toll booth, or bound for the graveyard of
>>> Internet
>>> > history?
>>> >
>>> > Should we be placing wagers...perhaps in bitcoin?
>>> >
>>> > ~Stu
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