U.S. Public Health Agency Tweets from 2012 to 2022

690,281 Tweet IDs from state public health agencies, the CDC, FDA, and state-level COVID-19 communication accounts, collected over a decade. Samuel R Mendez created this dataset using the R package academictwitteR and uploaded it to Harvard Dataverse on April 8, 2023. The data is described as uncleaned and may contain duplicates due to the download structure.

Use Cases

• Analyze the evolution of public health messaging over time based on the 2012-2022 date range
• Study government communication patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic based on the inclusion of state-level COVID-19 accounts
• Conduct longitudinal text analysis of agency tweets based on the large collection of Tweet IDs
• Compare communication styles between federal (CDC/FDA) and state-level public health agencies

Strengths

• Contains 690,281 Tweet IDs, providing a substantial sample for analysis
• Covers a long temporal range from 2012 through 2022, enabling longitudinal study
• Includes data from authoritative sources like the CDC, FDA, and state public health agencies

Limitations

• The dataset is described as uncleaned and may contain duplicates
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is known, but the actual content and features of the Tweets require separate retrieval

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Downloaded via the R package 'academictwitteR'

Time Range

2012 through 2022

Freshness

Data collection ended in 2022; the dataset was uploaded on April 8, 2023.

Geography

United States (federal and state-level agencies)