Twitter’s New API Plans Will Devastate Public Interest Research

Whinging about this with an inbuilt assumption that Twitter will (or should) remain synonymous with “public opinion” seems rather pointless.

We must stop playing into the hands of Twitter who would love us to believe its feeds are the “voice of the people” but, in fact, are an unrepresentative cesspit massively infected by propaganda and bots.

Instead why not encourage the boycott of Twitter and migration to something more accountable and democratic.

Call out lazy journalists who report on Tweets as though they are somehow representative of public opinion. Write to your politicians to report tech that enables mental health issues. Report to the police hateful content that isn’t promptly removed.

The company has massive debt. They have to make some serious bank somehow... with so many advertisers pulling out.