ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

This dataset contains the tweet ids of 160,656,738 tweets collected from the Twitter accounts of 9,636 news outlets, i.e., accounts of media organizations intended to disseminate news. The media organizations include everything from local U.S. newspapers to foreign television stations. They were collected between August 4, 2016 and May 12, 2020 from the Twitter API using Social Feed Manager. Note that not all accounts may have been collected for the entire duration and there may be tweets from before the time period.

This collection was collected from the GET statuses/user_timeline method of the Twitter REST API (retrieved on a weekly schedule).

There is a README.txt file containing additional documentation on how the data was collected. There is also an accounts.csv file listing the Twitter accounts that were collected.

The GET statuses/lookup method supports retrieving the complete tweet for a tweet id (known as hydrating). Tools such as Twarc or Hydrator can be used to hydrate tweets.

Per Twitter’s Developer Policy, tweet ids may be publicly shared for academic purposes; tweets may not.

We intend to update this dataset periodically.

Questions about this dataset can be sent to sfm@gwu.edu. George Washington University researchers should contact us for access to the tweets.