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Academic work has all kinds of costs, why should data be free of charge?
by mrtksn 4y ago
Academic work has all kinds of costs, why should data be free of charge?
- andrejguran 4y agodoesn't have to be free but with every increase there will be less research that can afford to pay for the data and with the proposed pricing of $500.000 for 0.3% of tweets it seems that no-one will be willing to pay the price
- viscanti 4y agoHow many researchers can and will pay $42k per month for access? What's the market size here? Is this anything more than a drop in the bucket for Twitter?
- mrtksn 4y agoI don't know but it's theirs to sell and find the right price. > Is this anything more than a drop in the bucket for Twitter? I don't know, Twitter were selling office furniture and cutting on the food on campus. So maybe it's not just a drop in the bucket after all?
- optionalsquid 4y agoAs you say, Academics are pretty used to paying for access to data, services, material, etc., but $42k-per-month for limited access to Twitter sounds more like a "fuck off" price than anything else.
- goosedragons 4y agoThere's pretty huge gap between $0 a month and $42,000. Even a year of data would require pretty huge grant.
- anigbrowl 4y agoSorry, no time for goalpost-chasing today.
- isubasinghe 4y agoWell I guarantee you the research project I worked on is now gonna get shut down because of this. Academic work has costs but nothing like 42k per month, if anything that was the entire budget allocation for one RA's salary for 80% of the year. The current project I am on now, has only been allocated 250k for multiple people (3 RAs) working on it for the year.