#1

Hi,

According to the instructions on the Twitter page, I should be able to get access to the API key for academic purposes:

“You are either a master’s student, doctoral candidate, post-doc, faculty, or research-focused employee at an academic institution or university.”

However, I was denied and I have not been given a reason for why. The emails I receive seem to be super automated and I can’t find any Twitter chat/telephone support… Does anyone know who I can contact or what I can do?

Also, they told me in the email that I can still get the standard version - how big a difference is it? We are trying to analyze COVID-19 Tweets from different states in the US from 2020 to 2021 for sentiment analysis, misinformation classification, and topic identification. Will the standard version be enough for this?

Thanks!!

Best regards,
Axel

#2

Hi. I am not writing on behalf of Twitter, but I have done a similar project recently.
I would say it depends on what you are trying to do. The most use I found out of the academic track was access to the full archive search (vs the last 30 days on the standard track) and better limit rates. My personal suggestion would be to define your queries thoroughly and have an idea of the amount of tweets you expect to download. Also, there are some public datasets with this information on Github, in case that helps

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#3

Also, I believe Twitter checks profiles individually before giving access to the academic track, to avoid abuses and stuff like that. I see you recently created your profile and do not have any info or profile pic. Perhaps sharing some info on your bio and adding resources to verify your credentials would help (think as if it were a job application and your profile served as a cv)

Disclaimer: I am an undergrad student working at an institution level research, and did not get approved for the academic track, but many of my colleagues have and their profiles follow such characteristics.

I wish you well on your thesis and hope you can find very useful info, it will be a fun ride.
Greetings!

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#4

I’ve some notes on this here: Twitter Developer Access - twarc you may get access if your supervisor or lab account applies.

For Covid Data, I can also recommend https://catalog.docnow.io/ (search for covid) these datasets are retrievable with twarc2 hydrate command and do not require academic access