ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

A Twitter dataset of English-language tweets referencing the “White Helmets,” collected using the Twitter streaming API between 27 May 2017 and 15 June 2018. This dataset includes 840,576 tweets by accounts that are in the red or blue clusters of the network diagram in Figure 1.

Each row of the dataset (a tweet) includes:

• id — the unique tweet id


• created_ts — the timestamp of the tweet in UTC


• extracted_domain_fixed — the domain linked to from the tweet (if applicable, otherwise None)


• youtube_videoid — if the tweet linked to YouTube, the 11-digit unique id of the YouTube video (if applicable, otherwise None)

The full tweet record can be rehydrated by passing the id to the Twitter API, however some tweets may no longer be available (e.g. due to deletion, protection, or suspension of the authoring account).