Self-Help Tweets from 40 Authors, Including Retweets and Comments

The-Tweets-of-Wisdom is a collection of tweets, retweets, and retweets with comments from 40 Twitter accounts that frequently post self-help and motivational content. The dataset was scraped using the Tweepy API, with the creator's script available for review. The data was released under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze thematic similarity between self-help tweets based on the described content.
• Study factors contributing to tweet virality based on the included retweet and comment data.
• Perform text mining on motivational language and common advice themes mentioned in the description.
• Train language models on informal, inspirational social media text.

Strengths

• Includes tweets, retweets, and retweets with comments from 40 distinct authors.
• Data collection method is documented with a provided script.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Twitter, via Tweepy API.

Collection Method

Scraped using a custom script.