[Air-L] RIP Twitter Search API
Jakob Jünger
jakob.juenger at uni-muenster.de
Wed Mar 15 03:58:38 PDT 2023
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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Jakob Jünger
University of Münster
Institute of Communication
Chair of Digital Media & Computational Methods
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