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Dr. Casey Fiesler

Guess what new announcement Twitter made in the middle of the night? Useful bots aside, do you know what it would mean for science if "no more free API access" includes academics/researchers? Also like... we use Twitter data in our intro programming class.

This thread also says "Twitter data are among the world’s most powerful data sets." Yep. Which is exactly why so many scientists use it.