Some Thoughts on Why You Would Like to Archive and Share [Small] Twitter Data Sets
This post by Ernesto Priego was originally published here . We're delighted to share it as it touches on many issues network members have been discussing, so thanks to Ernesto for allowing us to repost. Twitter ecosystem quadrant, via blog.twitter.com This is just a quick snippet to jot down some ideas as some kind of follow-up to my blog post on the Ethics of researching Twitter datasets republished today [28 May 2014] by the LSE Impact blog. If you have ever tried to keep up with Twitter you will know how hard it is. Tweets are like butterflies– one can only really look at them for long if one pins them down out of their natural environment. The reason why we have access to Twitter in any form is because of Twitter’s API , which stands for “Application Programming Interface”. As Twitter explains it , “An API is a defined way for a program to accomplish a task, usually by retrieving or modifying data. In Twitter’s case, we provide an API method for just about every feature ...