From perusing the forum, I can tell I am not the only one facing this issue. I’m out of contact options after attempting to grovel in private by emailing Twitter Development Accounts, but received the Kiss of Death aka, the auto-response “this email address does not process replies. you will not receive a response.”
Here is the message I sent via email. I redacted some information as I don’t want to share my advisors’ information on a public forum. Twitter API Dev Gods, whatever information you need, please contact me and I will get it to you.
I hope you are doing well. My request was rejected in November for unclear reasons as my profile was brand new. My intent was to request academic research access in preparation for my proposed research and to operate as a research assistant for [Redacted] and [Redacted] this semester. I am able to share their research agenda if that is needed and please feel free to validate with them as well. As it is imperative to my role as a research assistant, may you please assist in granting* academic research access to the Twitter API? Please let me know what you need from me to accomplish this goal.
*I think asking for granting was bold, can you allow me to reapply or appeal? Or any other options that allow me to get out of purgatory?
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Yeah the current review process is very opaque, since they won’t let you apply again with the same developer account as far as i know, maybe it’s worth applying again, but via your advisor’s account? this worked in the past. The important parts seem to be a verifiable identity on a university webpage, and a google scholar profile with publications that all match up with your twitter account: Twitter Developer Access - twarc . Good luck, hope you get access somehow!
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Thank you, I didn’t know that was an option! Going to mention it to my advisor now.
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Yeah, also worth mentioning: when describing your project, note the restricted use cases More on restricted use cases – Twitter Developers | Twitter Developer Platform
And another thing people often mistakenly put in, is “sharing data with other government bodies” this does not mean sharing your research outputs, this is always allowed if you share aggregate statistics (not about individuals, and only provide IDs, not full data payloads) this question is more like “are you going to make some monitoring tools for ICE under the guise of a PolSci research project?”
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Hello! I am so glad I found this post. May I please ask whether you got your application approved after using your advisors’ account? I haven’t submitted my application yet, but I have some trouble providing my academic profile as I am a first-year PhD student and my academic profile has not been created yet. Is that why you got rejected the first time? Thank you so much!
I would make sure that the account you’re applying with, has some sort of easily identifiable Academic Profile and publication record: Twitter Developer Access - twarc
In my field, it is uncommon for a first year to have a publication record. I truly hope we get an update on some type of appeal process. Even after providing information on my advisor and my research agenda, I haven’t received any update.
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