U.S. Government Tweet Ids

This dataset contains the tweet ids of 9,673,959 tweets for approximately 3400 U.S. government accounts. These are accounts that are associated with federal government agencies, not individuals. They were collected between January 20, 2017 and July 20, 2018 from the GET statuses/user_timeline method of the Twitter API using Social Feed Manager. There is a README.txt file containing additional documentation on how this dataset was collected. There is also an accounts.csv file listing the Twitter accounts that were collected. Note that accounts have been added and deleted during the collection period. This may contain tweets from accounts that were erroneously collected (e.g., accounts of government officials or accounts that were previously government accounts but since taken over by non-government users). The GET statuses/lookup method supports retrieving the complete tweet for a tweet id (known as hydrating). Tools such as Twarc or Hydrator can be used to hydrate tweets. Per Twitter’s Developer Policy, tweet ids may be publicly shared for academic purposes; tweets may not. We intend to update this dataset periodically. Questions about this dataset can be sent to sfm@gwu.edu. George Washington University researchers should contact us for access to the tweets.