Tag: computer vision

Written by ZacharyST

THIS Was Twitter, and Now You Can Study it Too

Until recently, Twitter was among the most studied social media platforms in the world. Its accessibility to researchers, coupled with its role in key moments of modern history—from the Arab Spring to the COVID-19 pandemic—made it an indispensable source of data. But in March 2023, the company’s new ownership sharply restricted access to its data, […]

Written by ZacharyST

Understanding Subnational Variation in Tweets

My primary source of data is tweets I get from Twitter’s POST statuses/filter endpoint, what I believe was called the “Streaming Endpoint” when I started working with Twitter data eons ago.  While it has always been straightforward to use a bounding box to get tweets with geographic information, exactly what Twitter reports and how it […]