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Am I allowed to tweets for another organisation?


I've been approached to use my code to collect a dataset of tweets for another organisation - am I allowed to do this?

They would be paying my time to setup a listener and I would give them a set of tweets.

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Twitter API terms say I can't redistribute content and lots of freely available twitter datasets have been taken off the web this year.

But I am allowed to to do the above - provide tweets to one organisation?


Solution

  • You would use the Twitter Streaming API to accomplish this. You would setup a listener for your keywords and whenever there is an update, new tweets will be pushed to you.

    You may have seen the following clause:

    You may not use Twitter Content or other data collected from end users of your Client to create or maintain a separate status update or social network database or service.

    What this basically means is that you cannot re-create Twitter. But it is acceptable to collect these tweets for analysis and for usage of the dataset as service augmentation. There are many companies doing this today.


    https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms