This is the end of #altmetrics as we know it: #Twitter ends free API access.
Countless hours of development work and creativity with data, apps, visualizations, conference walls, and a lot more: Gone.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/twitter-to-end-free-access-to-its-api/
Now, if the Fediverse would be a tiny bit more open to #federatedsearch approaches, this would be a historical opportunity to direct the attention of all these developers, artists etc to Mastodon & Co.
@hauschke @kuf I totally agree on the Mastodon #federatedsearch part. I'm on FediScience.org, signed up with my professional identity and ORCID, and I really want our toots to show up e.g. on #bioRxiv. Both to show that Mastodon is a viable alternative for Science Twitter, and to find interesting people and discussions.
Not every Mastodon instance needs to support search, but at least the "professional" ones should (with opt-out for users, of course).
@FrankSonntag, what do you think?
@biocs @hauschke @kuf I am not entirely sure what you mean, in particular in relation to bioRxiv.
Does their site-search include tweets?
I don't have a strong opinion on federated search, but it's clearly a thorny issue. At least they way people have tried to implement it (i.e. scraping without consent) is not going to be accepted. A carefully designed opt-in approach might work. There are probably discussions happening around that on the mastodon github.
ctnd.
@FrankSonntag @hauschke @kuf on a biorXiv preprint, a button shows the number of tweets, and if you click it then it shows you the tweets itself. It's actually powered by Altmetric.com, so these issues are actually the same.
Good to know that you're open to support AltMetrics!
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Michael Kuhn
Frank Sonntag