I was never told reason. All speculation. But I heard this explicitly from FB data scientists: no movement research.https://twitter.com/alexhanna/status/635459160533037057 …
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Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@alexhanna Unfortunately this is also Twitter's position: they won't sell historical data abt intl conflicts or social movements3 replies 4 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @dfreelon
@dfreelon really? that's surprising - thought you could access any publicly available tweet with the right gnip queries@zeynep@alexhanna2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @IgorBrigadir
@IgorBrigadir@zeynep@alexhanna Maybe if you subscribe--but they won't sell that data a la carte, which is the cheapest option1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Replying to @dfreelon
@dfreelon @IgorBrigadir @alexhanna I'm sadly not surprised. Another area in which research with proprietary data has issues. Alas.
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