That data appears to have come from a 2021 hack. In that attack, a hacker abused an application programming interface (API). With it, email addresses were connected to Twitter profiles.

Twitter will start charging users for downloading and uploading data. Everything from bots giving out earthquake alerts to ambitious research about how misinformation spreads could be affected.

Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.

Twitter holds a range of other types of user data, including phone numbers and the internet protocol addresses used to log in, which can reveal users’ location. IE 11 is not supported.

A massive Twitter data breach last year, exposing more than five million phone numbers and email addresses, was worse than initially reported.We’ve been shown evidence that the same security ...

Earlier this year, Twitter was fined $150 million for misusing user data over a period of six years.. According to the Federal Trade Commission, Twitter prompted users to provide their telephone ...

Twitter finally broke its silence over the first security incident of the Musk era: an alleged data breach that exposed the contact information of millions of users.. In late December, a poster on ...

That has made Twitter data a treasure trove for researchers eager to study online behavior, including how falsehoods and conspiracy theories circulate. Kate Starbird remembers how Twitter research ...

After Twitter announced in February it would begin charging third parties to access its platform data, academic researchers warned that the vaguely worded plan could threaten important studies ...

The Twitter account data you can download arrives as a ZIP file, viewable in a local web browser on a PC or Mac, which includes your tweets and direct messages, account info and history, apps and ...

Download your Twitter data. The first thing you should do is download your Twitter data, just in case—you might want to reference old tweets or read old messages in the future.

Twitter on Thursday sent a letter to Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, accusing the tech giant of improperly using the social media company’s data.. In the letter, which was reviewed ...