#metoo Digital Media Collection: 39 Million Tweet IDs from 2017-2022
by Zachary Maiorana / Harvard University
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Description
Harvard University's Schlesinger Library #metoo Digital Media Collection contains 39,373,774 tweet IDs collected from October 15, 2017 to December 31, 2022. Zachary Maiorana compiled this dataset using 76 specific hashtags, including #metoo and #timesup, with tweets gathered via Twitter's Historical PowerTrack and the Twitter Stream API. The dataset represents the full collection of tweets from the project, with subsets available for the core #metoo seed.
Use Cases
Study the temporal evolution of the #metoo movement based on the 5-year collection period from 2017 to 2022.
Analyze discourse networks and co-occurring hashtags based on the list of 76 collection terms.
Track changes in public conversation volume and themes before and after key events, such as the addition of four new hashtags in February 2022.
Compare data collection methodologies by examining tweets sourced from Twitter's Historical PowerTrack versus the Twitter Stream API.
Strengths
Contains 39,373,774 tweet IDs, providing a large-scale corpus for longitudinal study.
Covers a 5-year time range from October 15, 2017 to December 31, 2022, allowing for analysis of movement evolution.
Uses a defined list of 76 hashtags for collection, making the search methodology transparent.
Limitations
Dataset contains only tweet identifiers; full tweet content must be hydrated using external tools, subject to tweet deletion.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download and hydration.
Row count for the actual tweet content is unknown and depends on the success rate of the hydration process.
Provenance
Source
Schlesinger Library #metoo Digital Media Collection, Harvard University.
Collection Method
Tweets collected via Twitter's Historical PowerTrack (through GNIP) and the Twitter Stream API (via Social Feed Manager).
Time Range
October 15, 2017 to December 31, 2022.
Freshness
Data collection ended on December 31, 2022; last update date for the dataset version is unknown.
Only tweet IDs are shared per Twitter's Developer Policy; a tool like Hydrator is required to retrieve tweet content, which may be incomplete due to deletions.