Re:Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists
by umanwizard on Monday May 26, 2014 @11:21PM
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Doesn't Twitter make a fair bit of money from selling access to various slices of their data? I'd be surprised if they released it all to the general public. I imagine scientists would have to be under some sort of NDA.
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Re:Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists
by JamesMcMinn on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:45AM
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The Twitter terms of service prohibit sharing the data in the Tweets. Researchers are allowed to share tweet IDs and User IDs which can be used to identify a Tweet. Currently, Twitter collections are shared using this method -- I recently released a dataset of 120 million Tweet IDs which cover a sample of a months worth of data, and numerous other researchers have used these IDs to crawl Twitter and obtain the same dataset as I used in my experiments.