[Air-L] RIP Twitter Search API

[Jakob Jünger]

Are you sure the API is gone? For Facepager, the endpoint 
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json still works.

Am 11.03.2023 um 23:42 schrieb Ed Summers via Air-L:
>     It sounds like maybe you were still using the v1.1 API? It looks like
>     v2 is still live...for now.
>
>     On Mar 11, 2023 11:56 AM, Stuart Shulman via Air-L
>     <air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
>       The Twitter Search API we have used for gathering data since 2010
>       appears
>       to be gone. Is the academic API also gone? I have heard the price of
>       access
>       is prohibitive. What does this mean? Foremost, if you do research on
>       Twitter data, back up everything you already have. If you have any
>       Twitter
>       datasets you are now an archivist with precious cargo. Limiting
>       access to
>       new data hinders the ability of researchers to understand the
>       evolving ways
>       in which the platform is used in ongoing information warfare
>       operations,
>       for example to exacerbate polarization in democratic countries and
>       trigger
>       future insurrections here in the United States. However, at the
>       scale of,
>       say a university or even all universities, there is a massive amount
>       of
>       stored data. One thing I notice about misinformation propagandists
>       weaponizing Twitter is they like to stick with what they know
>       already
>       works. While we figure out how to access and study new data we
>       should
>       meanwhile be aware that the tactics previously used give important
>       clues
>       about what is coming. I don't think Mr. Musk bought Twitter to make
>       money.
>       So the concern for me is more about what other reasons would inspire
>       him to
>       overpay for a money losing business and then set about changing the
>       user
>       composition, researchers access, governance mechanisms, and other
>       really
>       important elements. I am worried specifically that the future power
>       users
>       able to pay for API access points will shape more of what goes onto
>       the
>       platform and shows up at the top of the feeds. The general trend is
>       disconcerting and dangerous with proto-fascists running about
>       banning books
>       and Elon platforming white supremacists and their fellow travelers.
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