Twitter for Academic Research
As we plan for the future of our developer platform we want to learn more from our academic community. What tools and resources would make it easier for you to conduct research with Twitter data, and what should we consider building?
- See what other ideas have been submitted and vote for ideas you like.
- If you have an idea that isn't already listed, create a new post.
- Include only one idea per post.
To start, we have added in a few ideas that have been suggested by developers in the past. Please vote or comment on those, if they reflect your own vision.
Thank you for participating!
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Allow API access to tweets from suspended accounts
For research focused on still-existing troll farms, it's critical to have access to tweets of accounts Twitter already suspended.
As troll farms:
1) are highly skillful in pushing legit users to breaking Twitter rules (and therefore to become suspended)
2) frequently experience suspension of their own accounts
3) when creating new accounts, tend to refer to their previous accounts to easier regain followershipCurrently, conversations with heavy involvement of troll farm accounts look like this:
https://twitter.com/pj1m6y2z1fmwdn7/status/1151811700557045761This Tweet is from a suspended account. Learn more
This Tweet is from a suspended account. Learn more
(single live tweet)
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