@emptywheel

@scottjshapiro Sorry. My bad. They're unrelated, but a measure of the import of being able to track the effects of virality.

One effect of making API data unavailable to researchers is to make such tracking exorbitantly expensive if not impossible.

Media industry

Nieman Lab
Among all of his mistakes, don't forget Elon Musk is singlehandedly crushing a big chunk of Internet research for no good reason
April 3, 2023
On March 29, after weeks of delays and uncertainty, Twitter's Developer team announced new pricing tiers for access to the Twitter API that will devastate public interest research.Over the past decade, researchers across the world have relied on Twitter's API to study the impact of social media on democracy, the role of social media in strengthening public health, how social media has been used to amplify marginalized voices, and much more.
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