The loss of access to Twitter data under the new pricing plan was a dire blow to our research at the UW-CIP.
Now being forced to delete the data that dozens of people spent years collecting, curating, and studying—outrageous. It’s like burning lab notebooks, an attack on science for the sake of pure malice.
https://inews.co.uk/news/twitter-researchers-delete-data-unless-pay-2364535
@ct_bergstrom This is incredibly infuriating, but it's darkly funny that Elon is stupid enough to think that "screenshots that showcase evidence of removal” are ... evidence of removal.
And then there's the moral argument - if Elon refuses to pay rent for his SF Twitter headquarters, why should researchers pay rent in order to keep the data they cached from Twitter v1?
