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| Twitter tweets Corona for researchers and developers to study |
Twitter announced on Wednesday that researchers and software developers will be able to access tens of millions of public tweets that are published every day about the new Corona Virus (COVID-19) to help them Twitter the spread of diseases. Or follow the wrong information.
Twitter said on his blog: Certified candidates who communicate in crisis management, emergency response, or within the community, as well as those who develop machine learning techniques and data tools to understand the scientific community, can also use this right of access (Covid-19)).
It should be noted that the social media platform presented new guidelines to reduce information about errors in the previous period (Covid-19), and warned that errors may occur due to its reliance on automatic review systems during popular times. Researchers on the research platform believe that companies should collect data from this period.
Last week, 75 groups and individuals, including digital rights and freedom of expression organizations, wrote an open letter to social media platforms asking them to keep test data and post it to their content. . However, Twitter said: Tweets that its owner also deleted from the record (Covid-19) are deleted.
Currently, free public access to new records is only a small part of all virus-tweeting traffic. However, the company provides paid users with more access. Researchers can instantly access published tweets with their contact history, but they don't provide historical data for those tweets.
Twitter said in the message: Any developer or researcher who has approval for a developer account can request access to the Twitter feed (Covid-19), but it must meet a number of requirements, including: Use cases to support the "public good." The applicant must also explain how the privacy and security of the person represented in the data can be protected.
Twitter said: Researchers are subject to their usual rules for analyzing health problems, including these rules: Do not receive or derive health information from Twitter users and do not store any personal information about this sensitive information.