Nature's Take: How Twitter's changes could affect science
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Is Twitter a Good Tool for Social Science Research?
Maria Cardona: I've heard talks where people are using Twitter to understand people's attitudes about extreme weather or heat waves. Do you see that you get really radically different answers from Twitter than you would from more traditional social science data gathering approaches? She says in a way, you're collecting spontaneous behavior and you can get to different populations.Cardona: The upcoming policies that we're not sure for how accessible those data will be is definitely something that is difficult for my community because it really has been such a resource.
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