Some under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers say a Twitter API paywall would jeopardize studies of influence campaigns and platform manipulation
Are you affected? … Tweets: Rebekah Tromble / @rebekahktromble : It's official. Academic researchers have started getting notices that their access to the API will be shut off. 1/ https://twitter.com/... Rebekah Tromble / @rebekahktromble : We're being directed to the Enterprise ($$$$$) option. The only problem? Filling out their form results in an auto-reply directing researchers back to the Academic Research Program. And the contact person listed no longer works at Twitter. 2/ Rebekah Tromble / @rebekahktromble : @transparenttech is organizing mutual aid for impacted researchers. Fill out the form here to request or provide support: 3/ https://proxy.link.app/... @transparenttech : Twitter announced today they're completely ending academic research access to the #TwitterAPI, adding insult to injury on API restrictions for journalists and civil society. 1/2 Cat Zakrzewski / @cat_zakrzewski : Musk has said he'll bring greater transparency to Twitter. So far: 1. API price hike 2. Overdue transparency report 3. Key researcher consortium stalled https://twitter.com/... Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : New: Twitter's decision to paywall its API is drawing blowback from researchers and lawmakers, who say it undermines Elon Musk's pledge to boost transparency on the site. W/ an assist from @Cat_Zakrzewski https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Brian Fung / @b_fung : @RebekahKTromble And remember Botometer, the tool Musk's team cited in court to defend his allegations that Twitter was riddled with bots? One of its developers, @yang3kc, tells me the API changes may degrade the project in multiple ways: https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/... Brian Fung / @b_fung : “Twitter essentially has gone, in a blink of an eye, from being an industry leader in transparency to the bottom of the barrel,” GWU's @RebekahKTromble told me. https://www.cnn.com/... Brian Fung / @b_fung : Musk's decision to charge for Twitter API access jeopardizes the study of influence campaigns and platform manipulation, researchers say, even as Twitter told the EU it's a leader in researcher access: https://www.cnn.com/...
We're being directed to the Enterprise ($$$$$) option. The only problem? Filling out their form results in an auto-reply directing researchers back to the Academic Research Program. And the contact person listed no longer works at Twitter. 2/
@transparenttech is organizing mutual aid for impacted researchers. Fill out the form here to request or provide support: 3/ https://proxy.link.app/...
Twitter announced today they're completely ending academic research access to the #TwitterAPI, adding insult to injury on API restrictions for journalists and civil society. 1/2
Musk has said he'll bring greater transparency to Twitter. So far: 1. API price hike 2. Overdue transparency report 3. Key researcher consortium stalled https://twitter.com/...
New: Twitter's decision to paywall its API is drawing blowback from researchers and lawmakers, who say it undermines Elon Musk's pledge to boost transparency on the site. W/ an assist from @Cat_Zakrzewski https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@RebekahKTromble And remember Botometer, the tool Musk's team cited in court to defend his allegations that Twitter was riddled with bots? One of its developers, @yang3kc, tells me the API changes may degrade the project in multiple ways: https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.c…
“Twitter essentially has gone, in a blink of an eye, from being an industry leader in transparency to the bottom of the barrel,” GWU's @RebekahKTromble told me. https://www.cnn.com/...
Musk's decision to charge for Twitter API access jeopardizes the study of influence campaigns and platform manipulation, researchers say, even as Twitter told the EU it's a leader in researcher access: https://www.cnn.com/...