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

[Katelynne Shimkus]

Jumping into this ask because I am also interested in the answer for my own
Masters Thesis research purposes.

Katelynne Shimkus
MA English Linguistics and Literature
KU Leuven

On Tue, Nov 26, 2024, 21:15 Terilee Edwards-hewitt via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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