Twitter’s terms of service requires us to delete tweets we have collected when they are removed from Twitter. This makes academic research on certain topics practically impossible, as continually monitoring whether a tweet is still present is unfeasible, and much time could be spent on research that would to be have to have to be abandoned because using the data would violate Twitter’s terms of service. Could an exception requiring the deletion of tweets to the terms of service be made for academic research?

I would like to study who networks of bots tend to follow, but since they are quickly suspended this data doesn't seem to be available anywhere.

Academics should receive increased access (beyond seven days) to historical data. The seven-day limitation severely limits academic inquiry and is a primary driver behind extravagant costs for those using Twitter data in their research.

Academics should not be burdened with the same rate limits as those who access the APIs for commercial means. Lifting these rate limits would significantly increase the rate at which data could be gathered, creating cost and time efficiencies for those using Twitter data in their research.

In addition to standard, premium, and enterprise API accounts, I hope there will be an option for Academia/Social/Non-Profit accounts. As a graduate student, it would be very exciting to have access to free/affordable large datasets.

I request the Twitter to allow access to all the replies of a tweet (all the conversations of a thread). It would be very useful for academics working in user behavior analysis, argumentation mining, hate speech detection because comment or reply reflects the actual thought process of a replying user.

Given the current need for data around covid-19 would you consider making relevant datasets containing tweet contents available now, possibly with some relaxed redistribution terms. There is a previous idea for datasets in general but right now there is a need for this data. Several groups are publishing different ID datasets but then anyone wanting it is having to pull down 70-300M matching tweets, that's going to be a load on your APIs and is slowing down access. I put a related topic up on the dev forums https://twittercommunity.com/t/covid-19-related-dataset-availability/136030

No puedo tener una api y la necesito para hacer una PoC para la empresa, se esta usando para hacer análisis de sentimientos

Twitter has launched some labels for Tweets that contain misleading information. For example, under those suspicious tweets, a label named as "Get the facts about.." will show up. However, these labels are not visible in the current json file. These labels are actually pretty interesting and valuable features because we can study the impact of it on the cascade of the misleading information, which will contribute to the current information cascading literature.

Academic researchers should have to submit a statement of ethics declaring their work with Twitter data will not be harmful to oppressed and marginalized people, who are disproportionately harmed by unethical data research practices. Twitter should also make the statements available to the wider community so other folks can learn from them or get ideas for modeling their own statements.

At the moment there appear to be two archive downloads. One from the Account page and another from the Your Twitter Data page. The first comes as a zip file with a nice index.html viewer. The second includes a lot more data but lacks a viewer. It would be useful if these options were combined into a single archive download that contains a usable viewer for the complete data.

This is important for archives that would like to accept snapshots of user's social media content for preservation and research.

In the current search API, the only form of engagement for which scholars currently get accurate metadata is RTs. There is no metadata field for Replies and the field for Likes does not return the number of times a tweet has been liked by other users. This information would be very valuable for academics, especially considering that the use of the "Like" button by users has increased substantially.

I'd like access to predefined datasets that provide ideas for my research and make it easy to get started.

A lot of researchers in the health field utilize location data to understand trends within a defined area. This is important when studying twitter data in relation to epidemics. However, it seems currently it's not possible to access geo-location data thus hindering this process.

Kindly add geo-location data to the Twitter API