[Air-L] RIP Twitter Search API

[Deen Freelon]

Well, there's this, which gave me a nice laugh yesterday: 
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-nearly-everyone/

On 3/11/2023 1:18 PM, Fred Fuchs via Air-L wrote:
> Thoughts:
>
> 1. Is there any preliminary information on new API registration for 
> either commercial or academic use?
>
> 2. Depending on contractual limitations for any new API service, if 
> any, I wonder if it'd be possible to set up a non-profit which 
> facilitated academic use? This might help with cost sharing if the 
> cost ends up as high as you speculate.
>
> 3. Depending on the rules under which existing academic datasets were 
> collected, might it be possible to share those among academic users? 
> Again, a non-profit created for the purpose might facilitate the 
> ethical sharing of existing datasets among academic users.
>
> Fred
>

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