The Pushshift team is working very hard to improve our data ingest for existing platforms and also adding new social media platforms to the list.
Currently the top priorities are:
- Reddit
- Gab
- Parler
- Telegram
- Facebook Public Pages
- Instagram
- 4 chan / 8 chan
- Tik Tok
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If you know of other social media platforms that are worth investigating and adding to our ingest, please let me know! Our goal is to provide data to researchers so that they have the data needed to better understand how social media discourse and disinfo affects our society.
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Thank you for your hard work! Have you considered investigating Voat as well?
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I looked at it at one point but the last time I checked, it wasn't very active at all. Is it active now?
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Have you thought about whatsapp ? has been very successful in getting some limited data. It will be very useful.. but helpful to know all of your thoughts on it.. happy to help !
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Yes! From my limited understanding of Whatsapp, it is primarily a private group chat? You need a link to a channel to get into the channel, correct?
Also, is there a limit to the number of users in a particular channel? I heard 255 at some point.
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8chan doesn't exist anymore, the same people are doing 8kun now, but it's not that relevant outside of QAnon. You can also look at 9chan and Kiwi Farms, both run by the same guy.
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thanks for all your efforts! Looking forward to resumption of the Gab data and to the new parler data!