A requiem for Twitter: what science has lost
Twitter is dead. Technically, it is still alive—barely—but for scientific research, it is as good as dead. Twitter’s demise did not start with the saturation of blue ticks, nor with the nonsensical limits on daily views. It started and ended with cordoning off access to the Twitter API; now, it costs $5,000 per month for 1,000,000 tweets—a tenth of what academics previously got for free. I started researching on Twitter in 2016....