Navigating the Post-API Dilemma Search Engine Results Pages Present a Biased View of Social Media Data

arXiv:2401.15479v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recent decisions to discontinue access to social media APIs are having detrimental effects on Internet research and the field of computational social science as a whole. This lack of access to data has been dubbed the Post-API era of Internet research. Fortunately, popular search engines have the means to crawl, capture, and surface social media data on their Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) if provided the proper search query, and may provide a solution to …

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