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Re:Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access by wslh on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @02:02PM (#11299366)
> For people who want bigger, broader, deeper access, they sell access to that data. That's been the case for the last few years.

Can I pay $ 100 extra per month for more access?

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Re:Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access by Xorlev on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @02:45PM (#11299721)
It's very expensive. You have to be careful to only register high signal / low noise terms or risk a massive bill.

To get the data emojitracker has would be tens of thousands a month or more.

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Re:Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access by mattzito on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @02:09PM (#11299436)
Most of it is based on volume - I have no idea what the entry point is for some of these things, but there are increments of data or access that are around that much.

But no, I doubt you can pony up $100/mo and get a meaningful amount of data.

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Re:Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access by wslh on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @03:15PM (#11299941)
That's the issue with Twitter and this is their fault. Google was revolutionary when they introduced a way to advertise (yes, AdWords) for only $ 5 while others (e.g: Yahoo) required thousand dollars as an entry point. I know it is not easy to develop/set up such system and deal with millions of retail customers but... in 2016? You can even do this with Twitter Advertising so I don't understand why they can't solve this for their API.
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