ttTweets2020: TidyTuesday tweets from 2020 that contain media

In spcanelon/TidyTuesdayAltText: Alternative text for media attached to TidyTuesday tweets

TidyTuesday tweets from 2020 that contain media

Description

A dataset containing the alternative text for media shared in 2020 as part of the TidyTuesday social project, along with other tweet attributes.

Usage

ttTweets2020

Format

A tibble with 3374 rows and 7 variables:

TweetId

<chr> Unique tweet identifier.

ImageUrl

<chr> URL to the media shared in the tweet.

AltText

<chr> Alternative text corresponding to the media shared in the tweet.

There are four types of entries:

1. Customized alternative text written by the tweet author.

2. "Image", which is the default alternative text added by the Twitter app in the absence of customized alternative text.

3. "ScrapingError", denoting unavailable alternative text due to unavailable tweets, like private or deleted tweets.

4. NA, denoting unavailable alternative text due to the media being non-static, like a gif or a video.

HashtagList

<list> List of hashtags used in the tweet.

TweetDate

<dttm> Date and time the tweet was posted. Ranges from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020.

Year

<fct> Year the tweet was posted. Includes only 2020.

UrlCheck

<fct> Denotes whether the tweet included an external link.

There are two types of entries:

• "IncludesLinks" which denotes the tweet included external links in addition to media, like a link to source code.

• "NoLinks" which denotes the tweet did not include external links (i.e. only included media).

Source

Tweets originally collected by Thomas Mock. Thomas Mock (2021). Tidy Tuesday: A weekly data project aimed at the R ecosystem. https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday

Alternative text for tweets was scraped by Silvia Canelón after further processing. https://www.twitter.com

spcanelon/TidyTuesdayAltText documentation built on Aug. 14, 2022, 10:56 a.m.