End of an era: As of this morning, @crowdtangle, the Meta platform many researchers and journalists used to study public accounts on Facebook and Instagram, is officially dead. #RIPCrowdtangle

In this 🧵I'll highlight some of the spectacular #polcomm work done with CT. 1/n

https://twitter.com/EngagingNews/status/1822022985274073287

A note: While some other forms of data access (MCL, ad library) still exist, the loss of CT shuts out many journalists, students, and unaffiliated researchers. It prioritizes principal investigators who are well-resourced from known academic institutions. 2/n

Same. Let me tell you a story about why this is a good thing:

https://twitter.com/favstats/status/1143868122836930561

Growing up and through most of my undergrad, I self-identified as a 'writing person.' "I'm bad at math, but really good at English," I would tell others. My grades in HS and college reflected this -- A's across the board in English, C's to F's in math. 2/x