Dan GillmorFeb 6, 2023
Instead of begging a sociopath CEO to please, please, please let them keep using his increasingly terrible website for research and other activities, these orgs and people should be organizing to move what they do to the open web. https://independenttechresearch.org/letter-twitter-api-access-threatens-public-interest-research/
Letter: Imposing Fees to Access the Twitter API Threatens Public-Interest Research

Twitter's API restrictions threaten essential research, innovation, & knowledge. Stand together to protect the public goods from data access.

Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Show threadMichael Zimmer
@dangillmor A large number of these signatories and organizations do reaseach specifically on/about Twitter and rely on Twitter data to understand that platform. Simply moving to "the open web" isn't a solution.
Feb 6, 2023 at 4:39pmWeb
Show threadDan GillmorFeb 6, 2023
@michaelzimmer That's fair. But it's clear that Musk is taking control of what people can know about the platform, and that genuine transparency is not on his agenda. We need to work to move the entire ecosystem out of there.