London Tweets on Garden Use and Mental Well-being During the 2020 UK Lockdown

8,866 tweet IDs collected from London, UK, for two periods: the first UK Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 and a control period in 2019. The dataset accompanies a 2026 PLOS ONE research article and includes coding results for 600 tweets selected for qualitative thematic analysis on garden use and mental well-being benefits. Only tweet IDs are provided, requiring rehydration to access the original text.

Use Cases

• Study the relationship between private garden use and mental well-being based on thematic coding results.
• Analyze changes in social media discourse about gardens between a pandemic lockdown period and a pre-pandemic control period.
• Conduct quantitative text analysis on rehydrated tweets from a specific geographic area (London).
• Replicate or extend the methodology of the associated social media investigation.

Strengths

• Dataset size of 8,866 tweets provides a basis for quantitative analysis.
• Includes qualitative coding results for 600 specifically screened tweets.
• Clear temporal comparison between a 2020 lockdown period and a 2019 control period.
• Associated with a peer-reviewed research article providing full methodological context.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is limited to tweets from London, UK, and may not be generalizable.

Provenance

Source

Robert L Feller via figshare.

Collection Method

Tweets collected via the X/Twitter API (Full Archive Search).

Time Range

2019 (control period) and 2020 (first UK Covid-19 lockdown).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 22:52:29; freshness should be verified.

Geography

London, UK.