Court rulings and thus interpretations of the terms by judges would have the potential of shedding light on where the legal limits lie when it comes to ToS. However, Twitter/X has settled all cases outside of courts and thus has prevented judges from interpreting its rules. 7/

Having grown in length from less than a thousand to more than 12,000 words, the terms now also extend over several documents and have overall become less comprehensible. 6/

While the restrictiveness of redistribution regulations varies over time, our analysis shows that sharing full tweet objects, whether collected in the past or recently, is largely not covered by past or current ToS. Thus, there is no conclusive solution to making them accessible for reuse yet. 5/

Furthermore, we introduce and analyze a comprehensive collection of Twitter/X’s conditions for sharing Twitter/X data from 2006 to 2023 (data is freely available via GESIS: doi.org/10.7802/2847). 4/

In the article, we discuss how social media companies’ (in this case Twitter/X’s) practices to restrict free access to their data may impact the FAIRness and the reproducibility of academic research and give an overview of changes in the practices of sharing Twitter/Xdata over the past 15 years. 3/

This might be something for you...

...if you have collected Twitter/X data and are unsure whether you can share it

...if you are interested in the conflict between open and FAIR data and legal restrictions such as Terms of Service (ToS) 2/

Super interesting research (as always) - both substantially and methodologically!

On Saturday, I'll present the paper “Movement Parties and Parliamentary Speech in Chile, Spain, and Mexico”, co-authored with @eborbath.bsky.social and @janschwalbach.bsky.social ; 2pm, East Meeting Level, East 3.

…but don't worry about your parliamentary text input during this time: already tomorrow, @lukashetzer.bsky.social and @chrauh.bsky.social will be giving an introduction to our new #parllawspeech dataset at @comptext.bsky.social \3

For the first time in 10 years, no #parlspeech / #parllawspeech / #parl_projectos_nuevos_speech scraper will be running on my laptop for 6 months… \2

We look at the different challenges and needs of researchers when sharing this kind of data. We cover the areas of researchers' capacities & incentives, legal & ethical challenges, and technical challenges. Furthermore, we outline potential ways forward and point to some existing solutions.

Congrats Jihed!! Very happy for you. Hope you celebrate a lot 🍾🎉