users: Users
In dtminnick/whistleblower: Twitter Whistleblower Data Analysis

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This data set contains user data from 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. Refer to documentation of the tweets dataset for a description of the method of data collection.

1	data(users)

A data frame with ... observations and 15 variables.

The data set includes the following variables. 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.
screen_name: Screen name, handle, or alias that this user identifies themselves with. screen names are unique but subject to change.
name: Name of the user, as they’ve defined it. Not necessarily a person’s name. Typically capped at 50 characters, but subject to change.
location: The user-defined location for this account’s profile. Not necessarily a location, nor machine-parseable.
description: The user-defined UTF-8 string describing account.
followers_count: Number of followers this account currently has. Under certain conditions of duress, this field will temporarily indicate 0.
friends_count: The number of users this account is following. Under certain conditions of duress, this field will temporarily indicate 0.
favourites_count: The number of Tweets this user has liked in the account’s lifetime. British spelling used in the field name for historical reasons.
account_created_at: The UTC datetime that the user account was created on Twitter.
ff_percentage: Ratio of followers to the user's total followers and friends. Intended to identify Twitter bot accounts.
account_age_in_years: Integer, age of account in years, calculated by subtracting the date account was created from the current system date.
account_created_at: Date account was created.
state_code: US state code, if contained in the user's account location.
state_name: US state name, if contained in the user's account location.
tweet_count: Integer, number of sample tweets for this user.