Twitter's new data access rules will make social media research harder

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Twitter's new data access rules will make social media research harder
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Twitter will now start charging users for downloading and uploading data. Everything from bots giving out earthquake alerts to ambitious research about how misinformation spreads could be affected.

calling on Twitter to maintain access for researchers so that public-interest research could continue. In a statement, U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan said that Twitter should be making data access easier, not harder. As of Wednesday, Twitter did not respond to a request from NPR sent last week for more information about its decision.

While the social media landscape has splintered in the past few years, Twitter still serves as a guide post because narratives brewing in smaller platforms could bubble up on Twitter. Since taking over Twitter late last year, Musk has reinstated the accounts of thousands of conspiracy theorists and white nationalists while cutting the company's teams that monitored the platform for hate speech and enforced its rules.Users with access to the Twitter API can upload and download data in bulk to and from the platform using a computer program, bypassing the main user interface.

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