Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API
Twitter's API shutdown has led to users sharing data for an open API, resulting in a dataset of one million tweets for developers, emphasizing user consent, privacy, and community-driven innovation.
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Twitter's recent decision to shut off API access has led users to voluntarily share their data for the creation of an open API. Approximately one million tweets have been compiled into a publicly accessible dataset hosted on community-archive.org, allowing developers to build tools that can be commercialized or used for personal insights. The initiative emphasizes user consent and the benefits of sharing data, fostering a community-driven ecosystem. Users can analyze their own tweets or explore cultural trends within their communities. The project aims to support self-hosting to ensure data control and privacy, while also encouraging the development of offline tools for data analysis. The vision includes creating a collaborative environment where users can easily access and visualize their data, potentially leading to innovative applications and insights. The initiative draws parallels to successful open data projects like OpenStreetMap, highlighting the potential for competition and innovation in the tech landscape. The community is encouraged to contribute and share their archives, with discussions ongoing about funding and sustainability for the project.
- Twitter's API access shutdown has prompted users to share their data for an open API.
- A dataset of around one million tweets is now publicly available for developers.
- The initiative focuses on user consent, privacy, and community-driven tools.
- Self-hosting and offline analysis tools are key components of the project.
- The project aims to foster innovation and competition similar to OpenStreetMap.
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21 commentsWhat is the game theory here? Twitter cooperates and OpenAI defects, and we call that a win?
I don't use Twitter often, but I'd run something like that if there were strong anonymity guarantees. Seems like a win-win for everyone.
Does anything like this exist today?
Or what if I could ask: "Given Omer Shehata's Twitter history, formulate a phishing scam that he would be likely vulnerable to".
The problem I see with here is that there are far more bad actor use cases for identifiable user data than good. In my opinion the main reason most social networks have stopped doing public by default and now do private by default is because not doing so opens them up to Cambridge Analytica type scandals where people don't realise what they're signing up for.
Personally if you do this, I would be very clear with your users that by submitting their data it will be made available publicly in an identifiable form. And that even if they revoke their data from your service it's possible for their data will continue to be archived by others, possibly for malicious reasons.
they've got data from 800 users so far, with watch data on 55 million videos
The only thing we can is motivate more people to use open platforms like NOSTR where API or data/identity handling is completely different.
I'm somewhat surprised that this space feels relatively dormant compared to the more complex stuff out there.
(APIs suck)
Same journey reddit is making, starting after it prepared to go public.
yikes.
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