Does Twitter filter its API search results based on any criteria related to the user ID performing the search?
I have been using the MAXQDA Twitter data collector using my default twitter account, and it occurred to me that twitter might be showing me tweets that have been pre-filtered according to who I am, rather than just giving me all results. This would potentially introduce a bias because it may only be fetching tweets that match my Twitter activity profile.
I am not sure that it is doing this, but in some MAXQDA queries, the results were suspiciously close to my own views, and it made me wonder if I am seeing the raw results, or if it was showing me mostly what it thought I liked.
Any thoughts?
Version: MAXQDA 2018
System: Windows 10