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In 2020, Twitter announced its application programming interface to give developers access to the site’s public data. The company is adding a new feature to this interface. It is releasing new tools to make it easier for academic researchers who want to analyze Twitter’s data to study a variety of topics including the pandemic, misinformation as well as hate speech. As per the company, it is improving the ways researchers filter the data so they can get more precise information from public accounts. Researchers who qualify will be granted access to public tweets that are older than a we...

Erkan's Field Diary Primary Menu 25 January 2021 Oxford Internet Institute Online gendered and sexualized abuse and disinformation against women in public life is widespread, and social media platforms are doing too little to stop it, finds a landmark study by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Moonshot CVE, with support from the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford. “Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized Against Women Online” explores gendered abuse and disinformation targeting 13 female p...

A Twitter world-improvement plan that doesn't involve deleting Twitter? Unleash the boffins, says microblogging biz Academics can apply for free access to historic Twitter data, so there is a use for the well of human misery after all Share Copy Twitter is making public tweet data freely available to academic researchers in the hope the boffins can use it to make the world a better place. Social media companies like Facebook and Twitter have been blamed for making the world a worse place by allowing misinformation to spread unchecked, to the point that a former US president appeared t...

Twitter is opening up its full tweet archive to academic researchers for free Share this story Illustration by Alex Castro Twitter on Tuesday announced a significant shift in the type of data it makes available for free to third-party academic researchers interested in studying user behaviors and trends related to online discourse. Now, Twitter says it will no longer require researchers pay for premium or enterprise developer access and will instead make the “full history of public conversation” — what the company refers to as its full-archive search endpoint — available to any resear...