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I always wondered: how many of these tweets are just Justin Bieber fandom type posts, bots, spam, or other dross? Twitter is infamous for its bad signal to noise ratio. These researchers need to write algos to filter out all the noise
basing on those UI screens, then why research is always associated with academia? there's a lot of strong people especially in CS who do not work with academia and still work on interesting stuff
basing on those UI screens, then why research is always associated with academia? there's a lot of strong people especially in CS who do not work with academia and still work on interesting stuff
I always wondered: how many of these tweets are just Justin Bieber fandom type posts, bots, spam, or other dross? Twitter is infamous for its bad signal to noise ratio. These researchers need to write algos to filter out all the noise
Similarly, if you're researching bots and spam and how they manipulate people & markets - this is still useful.
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
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 ar…
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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
And one might think liberals, putting liberty above order, would be aghast at silencing opponents to maintain order, and yet here we are. Our political theater has gotten pretty weird. The whole thing is looking more and more like unprincipled tribes vying for power.
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 ar…
And the streaming API was terrible. Even if there was no data on the stream you could consume tens of gigabytes of bandwidth a day. Dreadful.
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And one might think liberals, putting liberty above order, would be aghast at silencing opponents to maintain order, and yet here we are. Our political theater has gotten pretty weird. The whole thing is looking more and more like unprincipled tribes vying for power.
Silence is a strong word -- I'm certainly still able to hear news from Donald Trump, even if he was banned from Twitter.
Many dissenting voices have been removed from the conversation, and you wouldn't even know they are missing.