Twitter Data Grants Program Gives Access To Historical Tweets To Researchers

 Josh Constine (@joshconstine

Twitter wants researchers to turn its mountains of data into insights, from flu trends to New Years celebrations, that could delight and help the world. So today it announced the Twitter Data Grants program. Researchers can applyto get free access to Twitter’s public tweets and historical data through one of its official data resellers Gnip.

[Correction: Twitter tells researchers won't get the firehose, though the blog post mentions "With more than 500 million Tweets a day, Twitter has an expansive set of data from which we can glean insights". Instead, researchers will only get the data they need for their project.]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/05/twitter-for-researchers/