tweets: Tweets

Description Usage Format Details Author(s) References

Description

This data set contains a sample of Twitter status updates (i.e. tweets) collected between Thursday, September 26, 2019 and ... using the Twitter Search API via the rtweets package.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with ... observations and 8 variables.

Details

The data set is a result of a series of searches performed, once per day during the timeframe noted previously, using the term "#whistleblower" and a target number of 10,000 tweets per day in English excluding retweets. The data set includes the following variables. Variables used in this package are highlighted in bold. The Twitter data dictionary can be found in the https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/data-dictionary/overview/intro-to-tweet-json.

user_id

Integer; unique user identifier.

status_id

Integer; unique tweet identifier.

created_at

UTC time when the tweet was created.

text

The actual UTF-8 text of the tweet.

created_at_date

The date when the tweet was created.

created_at_weekday

Integer; day of week the tweet was created.

created_at_hour

Integer; hour of day the tweet was created.

hashtags

Character string containing hashtags which have been parsed out of the tweet text.

Author(s)

Donnie Minnick donnie.minnick@gmail.com

References

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/overview


dtminnick/whistleblower documentation built on Nov. 14, 2019, 2:45 p.m.