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Sounds like the academic community should be charged for access to the data, if there is so much value in there.
by oldmanjay 10y ago
Sounds like the academic community should be charged for access to the data, if there is so much value in there.
- bbctol 10y agoFor full access to the twitter archive, they are, though a lot of data can be gleaned from what's publicly posted.
- oldmanjay 10y agoIn retrospect I should have assumed that to be the case
- Tempest1981 10y agoThe media is clearly benefiting, with many stories backed by a Donald Trump tweet. But if the tweets weren't free to begin with, they might not be as newsworthy.
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> the media is clearly benefiting Journalists certainly are. Getting quotes was hard work. Now it consists of trawling Twitter. Not sure if this has been a boon or bane for journalism, however.
- Godel_unicode 10y ago> Journalists certainly are In the short term, anyway. The substitution of Twitter-trawling for actual journalism and research is doing immense damage in the long run.