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 threadAnil Dash
@dangillmor the thing is, academics and researchers have to investigate the world *as it is*. Right now, the fediverse is _less_ inclusive than Twitter; researchers need to make sure those people and their voices and cultures are understood.
Feb 6, 2023 at 5:39pmWeb
Show threadWTFFeb 6, 2023
@anildash @dangillmor I concur
Show threadrikFeb 6, 2023
@anildash @dangillmor
@fil that's what i hear too.
if you're trying to understand signs of life within a sh*tstream, you need to walk thru sewage