.Twitter will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID19
Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID-19, which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinformation, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.
Social media platforms have both introduced new policies to curb COVID-19 misinformation and warned that there may be errors due to their reliance on more automated moderation systems during the pandemic. Researchers studying the platforms have argued that the companies must collect data about this period.“Our cooperation and regular contacts with online platforms to fight disinformation are bearing fruit.
Last week, 75 groups and individuals, including digital rights and free speech organizations, wrote an open letter to social media platforms asking them to preserve and publish their content moderation data.said that once tweets were taken down, they would have to be removed from this COVID-19 data set.‘s free, public API access offers a small percentage of its full stream of tweets, although the company does provide greater levels of access to paying clients.
Researchers will be able to access tweets created from the moment they connect to the data set, but it will not provide historical data.developer account can apply for access to the COVID-19 stream endpoint, but they must meet a set of requirements, including that the use case supports “the public good.”
Applicants will also have to explain how they will protect the privacy and safety of people represented in the data.said that researchers would be bound by its usual rules projects analyzing health-related topics, for example, not deriving or inferring information about a—Reporting by Elizabeth Culliford; Editing by David Gregorio
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