COVID-19 Twitter Dataset

The current dataset contains 237M Tweet IDs for Twitter posts that mentioned "COVID" as a keyword or as part of a hashtag (e.g., COVID-19, COVID19) between March and July of 2020. Sampling Method: hourly requests sent to Twitter Search API using Social Feed Manager, an open source software that harvests social media data and related content from Twitter and other platforms. NOTE: 1) In accordance with Twitter API Terms, only Tweet IDs are provided as part of this dataset. 2) To recollect tweets based on the list of Tweet IDs contained in these datasets, you will need to use tweet 'rehydration' programs like Hydrator (github.com/DocNow/hydrator) or Python library Twarc (github.com/DocNow/twarc). 3) This dataset, like most datasets collected via the Twitter Search API, is a sample of the available tweets on this topic and is not meant to be comprehensive.

Some COVID-related tweets might not be included in the dataset either because the tweets were collected using a standardized but intermittent (hourly) sampling protocol or because tweets used hashtags/keywords other than COVID (e.g., Coronavirus or #nCoV). 4) To broaden this sample, consider comparing/merging this dataset with other COVID-19 related public datasets such as: github.com/thepanacealab/covid19_twitter ieee-dataport.org/open-access/corona-virus-covid-19-tweets-dataset github.com/echen102/COVID-19-TweetIDs