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.

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Claim LD08-SL-C30 (v1.0)

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Claim type: Estimate
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with qualifiers: preprint
Verification state: Checked against the primary source; the source is a preprint. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: A causal estimate, or the scale of later decline; many 2024 studies likely used data collected earlier
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
Source (as cited): Murtfeldt, Paik, Alterman, Kahveci & West, “RIP Twitter API: A Eulogy to Its Vast Research Contributions,” arXiv:2404.07340, 2025
Source type: Preprint (recorded as “Preprint”)
Institutional position: Independent academic (University of Washington)
Maturity of the evidence: Emerging evidence
Recorded date: 16 October 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

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Murtfeldt, Paik, Alterman, Kahveci & West, “RIP Twitter API: A Eulogy to Its Vast Research Contributions,” arXiv:2404.07340, 2025 (Preprint)
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Claim type (coded): ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (PREPRINT) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH PREPRINT QUALIFIER”)
Verification state (coded): CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (PREPRINT)
Source type (coded): PREPRINT
Maturity (coded): EMERGING

#	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)

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“Murtfeldt, Paik, Alterman, Kahveci & West, “RIP Twitter API: A Eulogy to Its Vast Research Contributions,” arXiv:2404.07340, 2025” → Murtfeldt et al. (2025), “RIP Twitter API: A Eulogy to…” (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)

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SocioLens project. (2026, October 16). 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 [Claim LD08-SL-C30, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld08-sl-c30/v1.0/

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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.

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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; fixture fixtures/authored/claims/LD08-SL-C30--v1.0.

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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".