Twitter Parliamentarian Database: Politician IDs Across 26 Countries

Livia van Vliet compiled a database of parliamentarian names, parties, and Twitter IDs from 26 countries and the European Parliament. Tweet IDs from these politicians were collected from September 2017 to October 31, 2019, with an update for 2021 added later. In compliance with Twitter's policy, the database stores tweet IDs, which can be re-hydrated into full tweets using existing tools.

Use Cases

• Analyze political party representation on Twitter based on listed party affiliations
• Study temporal patterns in politician communication based on tweet IDs from 2017-2019 and 2021
• Compare social media presence across different national legislatures based on the list of 26 countries
• Re-hydrate and analyze tweet content from specific politicians using the stored tweet IDs

Strengths

• Includes data from 26 countries and the European Parliament
• Tweet IDs collected over a defined period from September 2017 to October 31, 2019
• Contains an update with tweet IDs for 2021

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

Livia van Vliet

Collection Method

Tweet IDs collected from politicians' Twitter accounts.

Time Range

September 2017 - October 31, 2019, with an update for 2021.

Geography

Austria, Belgium, France, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Poland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, New Zealand, Turkey, United States, Canada, Australia, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Latvia, Slovenia, and the European Parliament.