Info: Academic Track Benefits

Twitter's V2 API has different "product tracks" which allow different levels of access. The new "Academic Research" product track allows researchers an increased level of access to data in a number of areas.

The below information is taken from a Twitter Community forum post by Suhem Parack (Twitter, Developer Relations).

1. Free access to the complete archive of historical public Tweets

When using the full-archive search endpoint, you can specify the dates for historical Tweets using the start_time and end_time parameters.

• Check out the endpoint's API reference

Limits:

• 300 requests per 15-minute window (app auth)
• 1 request per second (app auth)
• Up to 500 tweets per query (set with the max_results parameter - default = 10)

Twitter's Guides:

• How to build a search query
• How to use pagination

2. Significantly higher monthly Tweet cap - 10M tweets

Note: this Tweet cap currently applies to the following endpoints:

• Recent search
• Filtered stream
• Full-archive search
• User Tweet and mentions timelines

3. Enhanced filtering capabilities across Twitter API v2

There are certain filtering operators that are only available in the Academic Research product track, as they are intended to help researchers return more precise data. These operators include:

• $ (aka cashtag)
• bio
• bio_name
• bio_location
• place
• place_country
• point_radius
• bounding_box
• -is:nullcast
• has:cashtags
• has:geo

4. Increased rule cap for the filtered stream endpoint

• Academic product track --> can add 1,000 concurrent rules when using the filtered stream endpoint, and each rule can be 1,024
• Standard product track --> limited to to 25 concurrent rules and each rule can be 512 characters long

5. Longer query length for the recent search endpoint

• Academic product track --> query in the recent search endpoint can be 1024 characters long
• Standard track --> query is limited to 512 characters