[Air-L] Recommendations for APIs for Bluesky and Twitter/X - also any database for tracking posts?

[Terilee Edwards-hewitt]

Hello everyone. I am a Ph.D. student in Cultural Studies at George Mason University.

I am about to start my data collection on a number different accounts about STEM on both Bluesky and Twitter/X (really loath the name X).

I plan (!) to collect data over a 4 month period this spring.

I know Twitter/X now charges a ton of money to get data, but it isn't as good as it was in the past.
I used their own API for an article back in 2020 https://www.mpcaaca.org/pcsj-volume-8-number-2-5

Do people have recommendations on API for Bluesky and Twitter/X?

Also, are they any databases that people love to document who posts what/when and the response or have people just put together their own database or spreadsheet?

Thank you in advance.

Teri Edwards-Hewitt