It's possible, if not likely, that releasing this data would be against one or more Service Terms.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Pete Warden <p...@petewarden.com> wrote: > I'm looking into releasing a data set based on information pulled from the > Twitter API. It would be a free release limited to academic researchers, an > anonymized version of the network connections of several million users with > public profiles. > > What I'm hoping to release is something like this: > <user id>, <city-level location>, <follower ids>, <friend ids> > > In all cases, the ids are arbitrary identifiers that are not convertible to > actual Twitter ids, and any detailed locations are converted to the nearest > large city. > > I'm aware that it may be possible to de-anonymize some of these users based > on topology, but since much richer information is available through the API > on these users anyway, that seems unlikely to be an issue? However I'm > obviously keen to hear any concerns that Twitter (or other developers here) > may have before I go forward with this. > > cheers, > Pete >
