Eduardo RP 
Kate StarbirdTwitter announced it's replacing the "Academic API" with a $100-per-month "Basic Access." Really happy we didn't invest in moving our infrastructure to the Academic API over the past year. Would have been wasted effort. As an academic who has been relying on Twitter data for my research program for 14 years, I'm pretty confident that the new "basic" access is not going to replace the collection streams we've been using all this time. Currently spending our effort branching out to other platforms
thomkennon@katestarbird for past 6 years I've been getting my social discourse feeds through Talkwalker. It includes Twitter but the data from that network is absolute meh compared to forums, YouTube, tiktok and - the best - reddit subs
Paul Lockaby@katestarbird I, too, am glad that we didn't waste our time upgrading that code with this outcome.
Jeroen Franssen 🇧🇪@katestarbird
We (at the NATO Innovation Hub) have used the Twitter API as well for some proof of concepts. I was wondering what your thoughts are of using solutions like nitter and bird.makeup that scrape the frontend might be an alternative?
@tchambers
We (at the NATO Innovation Hub) have used the Twitter API as well for some proof of concepts. I was wondering what your thoughts are of using solutions like nitter and bird.makeup that scrape the frontend might be an alternative?
@tchambers
hammancheez@katestarbird what's hilarious is how fucking impossible it is to get recurring funding for shit in academia as it is, so all these sub based softare license models are an especial fuck you to the higher ed vertical
Richard 🏳️🌈@katestarbird Twitter is in its last gasps. Elon is in way over his head.
For the first time in his life, he’s being told no.
His ego is costing him a fortune.
With Mastodon, Post, and now Spoutible he has major competition. Counter & Tribel have a following too.
Twitter won’t survive musk, and he’s too disconnected to realize users and advertisers aren’t returning.
Carl T. Bergstrom@katestarbird This is a disaster for academic research on the platform. No wonder the New York Times published an obituary of sorts today.
Bob CulleyTwitter ain’t dead, it just smells Musky.
John S. Erickson 🙏@katestarbird What “platforms” are you branching your research into? cc #WebScience
Tim Chambers@katestarbird Do you mean branching out to study other social platforms? Or other tools to study Twitter?
@tchambers Focused right now on other platforms. And then will start to rethink how we use Twitter once the dust settles a bit. It will be far less of a focus, in part due to limited visibility (determined by rate limits and price) and in part, perhaps, due to playing a less prominent role in the larger discourse. Lots of uncertainty though.
@katestarbird My team is doing much the same. Good luck.
Michael Smith 2nd@katestarbird What other platforms are you looking into? Curious if it's a reflection of where those of us who quit the bird site went. (Mastodon, Post.news, Instagram, T2 etc.)
@michaelsmith2nd Telegram, TikTok, Reddit right now. Mastodon maybe... if the usage numbers go up. Instagram is difficult.