Twitter said it had never offered a full stream on a particular topic before, and that it represented tens of thousands of dollars per month in data. Researchers will be able to access tweets created from the moment they connect to the data set, but it will not provide historical data. — Reuters
Twitter 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.
Twitter said that this access could also be used by approved applicants working on crisis management, emergency response or communication within communities, as well as those developing machine learning and data tools to help the scientific community understand Covid-19.
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