Post ASHOsqtISSEqrLr7aa by katestarbird@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #ASHOsp39Iqvn9KRxfU by katestarbird@mstdn.social
       2023-02-02T17:52:15Z
       
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       Looks like Twitter is eliminating free access to its APIs on Feb 9. I haven't seen information about pricing yet, but this could very well be the end of an era for platform transparency and social media research. I built my first collection script in 2010. Since then, 80% of my research focuses on that silly bird platform. It's long been time (for my team, at least) to move on, but this will profoundly change how researchers (and society) can study and understand online behavior.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASHOsqtISSEqrLr7aa by katestarbird@mstdn.social
       2023-02-02T18:04:59Z
       
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       It's possible, depending on pricing for academic access (which I haven't seen) that our team will be able to continue, to a much smaller extent, to conduct research on Twitter. However, the under-resourced PhD student won't have a chance to work in this environment. As a wide-eyed PhD student on a "crisis informatics" team, in the wake of the Haiti Earthquake, I built an infrastructure to support crisis mapping during disaster events. That kind of emergent "action research" won't be possible.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASHxPRIG2vjJT6F25w by ML2@akkoma.sandhill.social
       2023-02-03T02:37:22.336526Z
       
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       @katestarbird Apparently the pricing is $100/month.https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick/109798181815841671