Dril-Tweets: Twitter Posts with Engagement Statistics

A collection of tweets scraped from the Twitter account @dril in January 2020. The dataset includes the date, text, and engagement statistics such as likes and retweets for each post. It was created using the GetOldTweets scraper and is shared under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze informal language and humor styles based on the tweet text content.
• Model social media engagement by correlating tweet text with likes and retweets.
• Study the evolution of online persona or meme culture based on the chronological posting date.

Strengths

• Includes multiple data points per tweet, such as date, text, likes, and retweets.
• Data originates from a single, well-known source account, providing a consistent voice.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Twitter account @dril.

Collection Method

Scraped using the GetOldTweets tool.

Time Range

Scraped in January 2020; tweet creation dates are unspecified.