Last week, the Twitter Development team announced that the platform will no longer allow free access to the Twitter API starting this Thursday, February 9.
In response, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (of which CITAP is a member organization) drafted a letter calling for the company to maintain research access, noting:
This dramatic restriction will disrupt critical projects from thousands of journalists, academics, and civil society actors worldwide who study some of the most important issues impacting our societies today.
We call on Twitter to ensure that APIs for studying public content on the platform remain easily accessible for journalists, academics, and civil society.
We joined over 100 other institutions in signing this call for essential research support.