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I have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact the is some sort of market value to be had by paying 42,000 per month to twitter.
Think nation states and AI companies.
Researchers, sociologists, and markers probably pay it too.
I don’t do this work but from what I heard from my uni, librarians are sharing guides to analyze twitter from web archive. So I’m not sure whether there are researchers that actually pay, or at least at that full price. Even reddit/pushshiftapi makes some exceptions for researchers and moderators, for the time being.
I'd guess most researchers can't afford 42k/month.