trolls: Russian Trolls Data

Description Usage Format Examples

Description

A matrix containing tweets in English (n = 476,215) from Left Wing and Right Wing Russian troll twitter accounts. Posts were created between February 2012 and May 2018. This dataset includes only authored tweets; retweets, reposts, and repetitions have been removed. The original data was provided by FiveThirtyEight and Clemson University researchers Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren. For more invormation visit https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/russian-troll-tweets

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 476,215 rows and 6 columns.

content

A tweet.

author

The name of the handle that authored the tweet.

publish_date

The date the tweet was published on.

followers

How many followers the handle had at the time of posting.

updates

How many interactions (including likes, tweets, retweets) the post garnered.

account_type

Left or Right

Examples

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