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Re: Twitter improves API usage for researchers

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Could have saved you some work, the research results are that Twitter is very liberal, less conservative and nobody has seen a libertarian for days.

Where's your sources, numbers, methodology? I mean anyone can make a kneejerk statement based on their perception (read: bubble), but that's not science.

Re: Twitter improves API usage for researchers

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post #3

Could have saved you some work, the research results are that Twitter is very liberal, less conservative and nobody has seen a libertarian for days.

I'd think libertarians would love twitter, deplatforming is the free market at work and the government has no right to make them do business with anyone they choose not to

Re: Twitter improves API usage for researchers

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In what research contexts is API usage valid instead of scraping a view more similar to what people experience? If the Twitter site and API are retrospectively cleared of removed/suspended accounts with large impact, how does that affect retrospective studies?

Are there ethical implications of working with Twitter to gather data? Despite Twitter TOS, legal, IRB ok, are there informed consent issues in studying the artifacts of social media use?

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