I’m a Professor of Marketing at a small State University here in Minnesota and I can’t seem to get approved to use the Twitter API because I can’t get approved to be a Developer. The reason: I am at a State school (Minnesota State University system). Clearly, Minnesota is a state and it has a government and the State schools are part of that, so I am classified as a Government user and therefore not approved.
Can a Professor at a State school use this in their Marketing classes?
If so, how? Desperately trying to figure out why Academic use is blocked.
Apparently the answer is NO. I suspect that if I were a Russan or a neo-Nazi I’d be approved, but as a teacher (professor) at a small State University who want’s to teach Sentiment analysis we are simply too dangerous to use Twitter and their API.
ARG.
That seems kinda wrong - what are you putting into the details for your application? While your state uni is a government entity, i think there’s questions about sharing data with other government bodies - you should not share or plan to share data with other gov. bodies for your teaching. I haven’t run through the application process recently but i know it changed and has lots of new / different questions - I think there may be other questions that are easy to answer in a way that makes your application seem like it’s something else, like a surveillance app or something else that goes against the TOS.
Are you applying with your personal email or university email? is anything you’re proposing specifically restricted? More on restricted use cases – Twitter Developers | Twitter Developer Platform if so, the use case is the problem.
Are you applying for personal access, or organisational access? Developer portal overview | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform - if it’s personal, you can’t share or provide keys or apps with students - you need organisational access.
If you’re applying for organisational access and your university or department already has access, maybe that’s the reason you’re getting rejected? Those are the only reasons i can think of.
Igor, thanks for the reply. I probably was “too” honest in my application and since we are a State Univ, they thought “Government” and I was doomed. The application process is a serious pain and I cannot put my students through this. Heck, I hate it so much I may drop the whole idea.
I used my personal email (gmail account) and I asked for personal access for academic purposes. I had hoped to have this approved, set up some lesson plans for R and Python sentiment analysis, and have the students each get their own dev access for the course and its projects. But given this pain and doubtful result, I cannot have have some kid w access and some without. That would kill the class for sure, and it would be seriously unfair.
My Univ does not have developer access and neither does my Department, I write and teach mobile app dev so I was asked to see if this was possible (they thought it was nerd work I guess). I did look at the"restricted uses" site you noted before I applied and I never proposed doing anything that would violate the restrictions detailed on that site. I just don’t think it’s possible to use in a University setting, at least not a small university wo lawyers to complete this application process. I also don’t know how to edit my application and every email they send I answer leads to more emails and questions.
And you’re right, it seems kinda wrong. And very short sighted on Twitter’s part.
I think it’s worth applying according to this Developer portal overview | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform - with your university email (for verification) and specifically describing the class - the education type of account will let you register students and approve them and remove them after the class is done, letting them create their own apps - at least, that’s supposed to be how it’s meant to work - do post a reply with how this goes - it’s worth highlighting when things go right or wrong with these kinds of things.
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