2020 US Presidential Election Tweet IDs from March to November 2020

Tweet IDs associated with the 2020 United States presidential election, collected from March 1 to November 13, 2020. Emily Chen and colleagues at the University of Southern California gathered the data using Twitter's streaming API, following accounts and keywords. The dataset is released under a non-commercial Creative Commons license for research use.

Use Cases

• Study political sentiment and public opinion based on tweet content and metadata.
• Analyze information diffusion and network structures based on retweet and reply patterns.
• Track the evolution of election-related topics and keywords over the campaign period.
• Benchmark natural language processing models for political text classification.

Strengths

• Covers a critical 8.5-month period of the 2020 US presidential election campaign.
• Collection methodology is documented, using Twitter's streaming API to follow accounts and keywords.
• Associated with a published academic manuscript, providing research context.

Limitations

• Contains only Tweet IDs; the full tweet content must be hydrated using Twitter's API, which may be subject to access restrictions.
• Row count and specific column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• The dataset is not actively maintained; users are directed to a separate GitHub repository for the current version.

Provenance

Source

University of Southern California

Collection Method

Collected via Twitter's streaming API by following specified accounts and keywords.

Time Range

2020-03-01 to 2020-11-13

Freshness

Dataset is not actively maintained; last update date is unknown.

Geography

United States (implied by topic)