FamousSuccess t1_jc27bzt wrote on March 13, 2023 at 2:40 PM

Reply to comment by tyler1128 in Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data by Hrmbee

I'm not sure if the data will be sold, rather than just tools to gather it.

Even still, from what I've seen in the past not much stands in the way of "ownership" of tweets/FB posts/Social media. It tends to fall in the public IP territory

tyler1128 t1_jc27nqp wrote on March 13, 2023 at 2:42 PM

I'm personally thinking about writing a service to sell the data at something like 1/10,000th the cost twitter is charging or less. It'd cache most of the tweet data in LRU form up to a specific data limit in a central database, and dynamically grab new data in the case it isn't already there. There's also be a constantly running scraper for new data to throw it in the central DB cache. Only think stopping me is understanding the legal ramifications. On-demand access to historical data is too slow for large cohorts.

FamousSuccess t1_jc2ry05 wrote on March 13, 2023 at 4:56 PM

Well. Keep in mind that google effectively sells advertising based on user data, and their services/users depend entirely on content and data of non google entities.

So I’d say if google can build a business on other entities public data, so can you.

Not a perfect parallel but a parallel nonetheless