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New blog post: Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov writes about Twitter as a gatekeeper for research data and the value of TweetsKB


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Social media platforms act as the gatekeepers for research data, as they regulate the access to data generated by and used within the platform. Twitter has been probably one of the most research/academia friendly social media-platform which is evident from the high number of publications based on Twitter data. This blog post discusses recent developments in the access to Twitter data, their potential implications, the role of infrastructures institution for enabling data access and a unique research data archive offered by GESIS.

DOI: 10.34879/gesisblog.2023.66