Next year, Pushshift will provide researchers access to global financial data including equities, commodities, futures, option chains, etc. Full historical data can be used to correlate financial market movement to social media influence (like Reddit's WallStreetBets subreddit).
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This will give researchers the ability to examine how social media affects financial markets and discover correlations, etc. (Gamestop stock manipulation via short squeezing as an example)
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Any possibility of adding Twitter data to improve social media coverage?
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