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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...

SOPA Images via Getty Images Twitter just took a major step toward making it easier for researchers to understand the conversations happening on its platform. The company introduced a new version of its API that will allow researchers to access wide swaths of public Twitter data, along with advanced search features.  The new Academic Research track could have major implications for researchers studying election security, misinformation and other big issues affecting Twitter. While the company has previously made this kind of data  available to developers, it was prohibitively expensive for ...