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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centers, and a company executive warned in an internal memo obtained by CNN that another outage elsewhere could result in ...

Twitter has issues keeping your data secure. Here’s what you can do. Five steps you can take to reduce your own security and privacy risk, short of quitting Twitter entirely.

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 ...