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Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty (www.nature.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Article doesn't need to explain why, other then because it's a toxic shit hole that's crashing and burning.

[โ€“] Mrduckrocks 4 points 1 year ago

I can bet some of them are researchers that use tweet datasets to conduct various research. After the API price changes its literally too expensive to generate datasets.