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Elon Musk Broke All the Tools Historians Need to Archive Tweets About Israel-Gaza War

404 Media: “…When Elon Musk began requiring people to pay steep fees to access the Twitter API earlier this year, he broke a series of tools used by researchers and archivists that could be used to accurately save tweets with metadata. We are now in a situation where the best way to archive “official” information on Twitter in a rapidly changing war is to take screenshots of deleted tweets, which can be faked and may leave out potentially very important metadata, such as what location and device the tweet was posted from, specific timestamps, and unique tweet identifiers that can be used to find the tweet again later. Screenshotting things is also an incredibly inefficient, manual, and ad-hoc way of preserving anything…”

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