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Instead, the API offers aggregated, anonymized data intended for long-term, high-level analysis—similar to the public version of Google Trends, but now easier to handle at scale.

It also means researchers who leverage Twitter's API to collect public data from the site will lose a key resource -- again, unless they pay, CNN reported.