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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 ...
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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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The new terms allow unlimited ID sharing on behalf of an academic institution.
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The new redistribution rules allow the sharing of an unlimited number of IDs for the purpose of non-commercial, research on behalf of an academic institution. Everyone is still allowed to manually share up to 1.5M IDs within 30 days and 50k Tweet objects per day.
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In total, you may not distribute more than 1,500,000 Tweet IDs to any entity (inclusive of multiple individuals associated with a single entity) within any 30 day period unless you have received written permission from Twitter. In addition, all developers may provide up to 50,000 public Tweets Objects and/or User Objects to each person who uses your service on a daily basis if this is done via non-automated means
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