Does using tweets downloaded with snscrape violate Twitter's terms and conditions?

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A social networking service scraper in Python

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Does using tweets downloaded with snscrape violate Twitter's terms and conditions? #147

Closed santoshbs closed 3 years ago

santoshbs commented 3 years ago

I was wondering whether the tweet texts downloaded from snscrape can be used for research purposes. In essence, is this in any sense a violation of the official terms and conditions of Twitter?

JustAnotherArchivist commented 3 years ago

If you need legal advice, please ask a lawyer and do not rely on anything else.