1/ Twitter's TOS prevents building large datasets for sharing for research purposes. The Coronavirus pandemic is a global phenomena where social media data will be invaluable from multiple research angles. I will be petitioning and making an appeal to Twitter to allow this ...
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2/ ... dataset to be shared for academic research. This data may aid research initiatives in the future to better understand the social impacts from a pandemic. My goal is to create the most comprehensive dataset possible related to the Coronavirus pandemic and requesting ...
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3/ ... that Twitter make a special allowance so that this dataset can be openly shared within the academic community. I will make every effort to make the dataset as complete as possible including inviting peer review of the code and methodology used to collect the data ...
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4/ ... with the ultimate goal being that this data, along with data from other social media platforms, be made freely available within the academic community so that researchers can better understand the effects of isolating and quarantining a society. Open research questions ...
5/ ... will include topics pertaining to the overall mental health of people involved in a pandemic, how people use social media to interact and spread information. How disinformation propagates and affects society in detrimental ways.
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Given the circumstances what do you think Twitter would do if you shared the dataset anyway? Genuine question.
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That's a good question. I honestly don't know what they would do. My heart wants to believe that they would support this because of the immense amount of benefits to society. My mind thinks they could possibly terminate my account and API access, etc.
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Yeah - sometimes its better not to ask for permission but to ask for forgiveness, as the saying goes, but its obviously not my API access on the line here!
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I agree and that's generally how I approach things. :) In this situation, I can't see why Jack / Twitter would say no -- it would be a huge public service to society.
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