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Twitter API

Introduction

Twitter is one of the most popular social media sites globally, with 500 million tweets sent daily (source). Therefore Twitter’s data is a valuable resource for Data Science, and its API helps to gather that. Further statistics on Twitter usage.

Availability and Limitations

Twitter API has comprehensive documentation. There are different access levels with various restrictions. For academic purposes, the best is Academic Research access. Summary of access levels and versions. Thanks to the popularity of the API, there are available tools and libraries in multiply programming languages.