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 threadKate StarbirdFeb 6, 2023
@dangillmor How about we do both? Our team is both diversifying our research program (developing new data streams from other platforms and the methods to analyze them) and advocating for Twitter to remain open for researchers.
Show threadDan GillmorFeb 6, 2023
@katestarbird Both for now, sure, but my goal is to get everyone off of that platform for good...
Show threadKate Starbird
@dangillmor I'm with you there! I put my account to sleep in November and have moved my personal and professional activity over here.
Feb 6, 2023 at 4:46pmWeb
Show threadDoug BostromFeb 6, 2023

@katestarbird @dangillmor

Hats off for principled decisions, especially when they're directly and signficantly costly as here.

My thought is that when one wants to study the behaviors of the John Birch Society, only the John Birch Society will do as one's research subject.

To study extremophiles needs entering extreme environments.

Hopefully the Twitter environment will fizzle such that we don't miss anything happening there of great importance to the rest of our world.