Twitter is opening up its full tweet archive to academic researchers for free

This is the twitter link you want for this post:

https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tips/2021/en...

This is big!

Great move from Twitter.

ie. Early warnings of COVID-19 outbreaks across Europe from social media https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81333-1

Hopefully it won’t result in overreaching conclusions. Trying to predict human behavior by tweets they put out is recipe for disaster. It can provide insights

What could possibly go wrong?