Claim LD08-SL-C30 (v1.0)
After Twitter ended its academic access programme in 2023 and set its Enterprise API price at $42,000 a month, the number of studies using Twitter data, which had grown by a median 25% a year, rose 0.6% in 2023 to 4,249 and fell 13% in 2024 to 3,712.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (PREPRINT) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH PREPRINT QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (PREPRINT) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED PREPRINT”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- A causal estimate, or the scale of later decline; many 2024 studies likely used data collected earlier
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Murtfeldt, Paik, Alterman, Kahveci & West, “RIP Twitter API: A Eulogy to Its Vast Research Contributions,” arXiv:2404.07340, 2025
- Source type (field 7)
- PREPRINT (as printed: “Preprint”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (University of Washington)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-16
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD08-SL-C30.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Murtfeldt, Paik, Alterman, Kahveci & West, “RIP Twitter API: A Eulogy to Its Vast Research Contributions,” arXiv:2404.07340, 2025” → SRC-SL-MURTFELDT-ET-AL-ARXIV-2404-07340--v1.0 — Murtfeldt, Paik, Alterman, Kahveci & West, “RIP Twitter API: A Eulogy to Its Vast Research Contributions,” arXiv:2404.07340, 2025; class PREPRINT (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD08-SL-C30 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | After Twitter ended its academic access programme in 2023 and set its Enterprise API price at $42,000 a month, the number of studies using Twitter data, which had grown by a median 25% a year, rose 0.6% in 2023 to 4,249 and fell 13% in 2024 to 3,712. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | B — Data and access | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Murtfeldt, Paik, Alterman, Kahveci & West, “RIP Twitter API: A Eulogy to Its Vast Research Contributions,” arXiv:2404.07340, 2025 | source_ids: SRC-SL-MURTFELDT-ET-AL-ARXIV-2404-07340 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Preprint | classes: PREPRINT |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (University of Washington) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | Studies using Twitter data, 2006–2024 | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Bibliometric search of eight databases on metadata | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | 33,306 studies in 8,914 venues | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Not applicable | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Earlier years | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | Median annual growth 25% to 2022; 4,249 studies in 2023 (+0.6%); 3,712 in 2024 (−13%) | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | The effect on research output of a firm withdrawing data access | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | A causal estimate, or the scale of later decline; many 2024 studies likely used data collected earlier | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED PREPRINT | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: PREPRINT · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Read in arXiv version 2 (13 October 2025), which corrects the citation count of version 1; metadata search only; raw counts with no adjustment for overall growth in publications; the abstract gives 2006–2023 and the body 2006–2022 for the growth period | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | LD08-SL-C26 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | Global platform / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Researchers without funds to pay are most affected | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-08, D3 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Counts for 2025 and 2026 | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH PREPRINT QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: PREPRINT |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-16 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-08 (LIVING_DEBATE); D3 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 bb3772d9a712a5585ae7cd6f1296ac3ca022b91dcd27058287a61054a50d2703.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C30 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-16; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-08 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-08 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 30 — LD08-SL-C30” SHA-256
a234517288a090103489a2fa1bbe75b40cf500c9bfcd8a78935392ae8719a62b; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD08-SL-C30--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C30 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-08 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C30 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-16); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-08 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-08 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-MURTFELDT-ET-AL-ARXIV-2404-07340--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 30 — LD08-SL-C30 cites "Murtfeldt, Paik, Alterman, Kahveci & West, “RIP Twitter API: A Eulogy to Its Vast Research Contributions,” arXiv:2404.07340, 2025"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-MURTFELDT-ET-AL-ARXIV-2404-07340--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Murtfeldt, Paik, Alterman, Kahveci & West, “RIP Twitter API: A Eulogy to Its Vast Research Contributions,” arXiv:2404.07340, 2025".