This is completely unaffordable for researchers.

Twitter then told universities and colleges that they would lose access to the Decahose unless they paid, which would require an “enterprise level” API subscription, at $42K/month. A more serious impact was to break emergency alerts systems. The first impact of this was to break all third-party Twitter apps, like Tweetbot and Twitterific. Last month, however, Twitter decided that it was going to revoke access to all its APIs unless users paid fees ranging from $100/month to $42K/month. Access to this was either free, or cost as little as $200 per month. This provided a bulk data feed representing a random 10% of all Twitter posts each day. To facilitate this, Twitter provided an API (application programming interface) called the Decahose. Academics have been told to delete Twitter data used for research purposes, unless they sign up for API access costing $42,000 per month … BackgroundĪcademic researchers have long used Twitter feeds to analyze things like the spread of misinformation and hate speech, and the effects of that on the offline world.

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