Twitter improves API usage for researchers
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Twitter improves API usage for researchers
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#2Twitter makes it easier for Researchers to use tweets and the Twitter API for research.
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#3Could have saved you some work, the research results are that Twitter is very liberal, less conservative and nobody has seen a libertarian for days.
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#4Could 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.
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#5Could have saved you some work, the research results are that Twitter is very liberal, less conservative and nobody has seen a libertarian for days.
You should follow different people.
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#6Is it me or is Twitter making a lot of announcements this month?
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#7Could 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
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#8I 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
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#9basing 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
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#10In 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?