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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by oldmanjay on Sunday October 09, 2016 @01:36PM (#12672247)
Sounds like the academic community should be charged for access to the data, if there is so much value in there.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by Tempest1981 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @01:47PM (#12672308)
The media is clearly benefiting, with many stories backed by a Donald Trump tweet. But if the tweets weren't free to begin with, they might not be as newsworthy.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by JumpCrisscross on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:26PM (#12672539)
> the media is clearly benefiting

Journalists certainly are. Getting quotes was hard work. Now it consists of trawling Twitter. Not sure if this has been a boon or bane for journalism, however.

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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by Godel_unicode on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:13PM (#12674481)
> Journalists certainly are

In the short term, anyway. The substitution of Twitter-trawling for actual journalism and research is doing immense damage in the long run.

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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by bbctol on Sunday October 09, 2016 @01:43PM (#12672282)
For full access to the twitter archive, they are, though a lot of data can be gleaned from what's publicly posted.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by oldmanjay on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:09PM (#12672439)
In retrospect I should have assumed that to be the case
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