Heya Ben, On 5/14/20 4:21 AM, Companjen, B.A. wrote: > Hello, > > Following up on the thread about (not) getting tweets from the Twitter API > older than 7 days, I would like to know if there is any experience providing > access to the Twitter Premium APIs as an (academic) library. > > Various researchers have asked us at the Libraries how they could get tweets > for their research projects and my answer has been pretty much the same each > time: you would need to apply for API access (and accept the Terms of Use), > understand that you can't get historical tweets, or pay. > I also point out that (depending on their research questions) Twitter may not > provide a representative view of opinions and that they should consider > whether it is ethical to use tweets. No one so far has replied with 'yes, all > done and great, now can you help me further with the Premium API?' but I > expect someone will at some point. > > As the library manages licences for access to other datasources, I have > wondered if we should and could provide managed access to the Premium APIs. > Although I have never applied for API access, I think individual researchers > may have access to the API more quickly than when they need to apply to > Twitter. But one person's misbehaviour could also impact all other > researchers' projects. And I don't know what kind of costs would be involved. > > I would like to hear if anyone has experience or thoughts about this. Feel > free to respond off-list or on-list.
That's interesting and reads a bit like GWU's Social Feed Manager[0]'s model. (or at least as I remember it). I am not sure if Laura et. al., hangout here but you can for sure find them and other folks who may have Twitter Premium (sadly I do not) at the DocNow Slack[1] That said Premium or not if you elect to provide a service like this I would abstract this away from the library twitter account or whatever with an application like Social Feed Manager and/or the DocNow (full disclosure: I'm involved in the project) so you would be able to know who said bad actor is. Cheers, ./fxk [0] https://library.gwu.edu/scholarly-technology-group/social-feed-manager [1] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Wk0JdF2Cty2VHMqpf_QlJXVKQdUtfeeFhaYRben3qaM/viewform
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