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 followership
Currently, conversations with heavy involvement of troll farm accounts look like this:
https://twitter.com/pj1m6y2z1fmwdn7/status/1151811700557045761
This Tweet is from a suspended account. Learn more
This Tweet is from a suspended account. Learn more
(single live tweet)
This Tweet is from a suspended account. Learn more
This Tweet is from a suspended account. Learn more
This Tweet is from a suspended account. Learn more
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Thank you for the suggestion! While it might not fully meet your desired outcome, we have been releasing many datasets of this type over the last 18 months or so. You can find these datasets here: https://transparency.twitter.com/en/information-operations.html (by providing your email address at the bottom).
