Election 2012 Tweet ID dataset

This data set identifies 38M tweets collected for the analysis of social media messages related to the 2012 U.S. Last published: January 29, 2016.

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Version:
1.0
Date Published:
15/07/2024
File Name:
PlosOne_Election2012_TweetID_Dataset.zip
File Size:
279.0 MB
This data set identifies 38M tweets collected for the analysis of social media messages related to the 2012 U.S. Presidential election. The data set provides tweet IDs for tweets containing the words "obama", "romney", or both (case-insensitive matching) during the period from July 1, 2012 through November 7, 2012. The paper, “Online and Social Media Data As an Imperfect Continuous Panel Survey.” PLoS ONE 11(1): e0145406 by Diaz et al. provides further description of the dataset.
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