Record Details

Twitter datasets: Brexit related tweets from pro and anti Brexit accounts January - March 2022 (Brexit leaning based on their Twitter bios)

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Twitter datasets: Brexit related tweets from pro and anti Brexit accounts January - March 2022 (Brexit leaning based on their Twitter bios)
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FXEFZT
 
Creator Lynch, Gareth
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description These datasets were collated as part of a Master's dissertation project.

This Twitter dataset covers the January - March 2022 period, and is comprised of tweets relating to Brexit or Europe from Twitter accounts with publicly stated Brexit positions in their bio.

The Boolean search used to create the pro-Brexit dataset is here:

(bio:"Brexit support*" OR bio:"pro-brexit" OR bio:"pro brexit" OR bio:"Pro #Brexit" OR bio:brexiteer OR bio:probrexit) AND (EU OR Brexit* OR CUSTOMS OR EUROPEAN OR EUROPE OR #Remain OR *Brexit OR #rejoinEU)

The Boolean search used to create the pro-Brexit dataset is here:

(bio:"anti brexit*" OR bio:"anti-brexit" OR bio:"antibrexit" OR bio:"Pro remain" OR bio:"pro-remain" OR bio:remainer) AND (EU OR BREXIT* OR CUSTOMS OR EUROPEAN OR EUROPE OR #Remain OR *Brexit)

A wide range of data relating to the tweets are in this dataset, including:

Field name Field description
Date The date the tweet was posted to Twitter.
URL URL link to the tweet
Hit Sentence Tweet text
Influencer Account name for the user who shared the tweet
Country Country location of the Twitter account (if declared)
Subregion Locale of the Twitter account (if declared)
Language Automated language detection
Reach Estimate of the “reach” of the tweet, based on followers at the time of
sending tweet
Engagement Sum of public engagements for the tweet (sum of likes, retweets and
quote tweets)
Twitter Screen Name Displayed name as appears on the Twitter profile of account
User Profile Url URL link to the Twitter account that shared the tweet
Twitter Bio Text from the Twitter bio section of the account
Twitter Followers Number of followers of the account
Twitter Following Number of accounts that are followed by this account
Alternate Date Format The date the tweet was posted to Twitter.
Time The time the tweet was posted to Twitter.
 
Subject Computer and Information Science
Social Sciences
Twitter Brexit Tweet
 
Contributor Lynch, Gareth