Hurricane Florence

This dataset contains the tweet ids of approximately 7,766,964 tweets related to Hurricane Florence. They were collected between September 10, 2018 and October 4, 2018 from the POST statuses/filter method of the Twitter Stream API using Social Feed Manager. There is a README.txt file containing additional documentation on how it was collected, including the keywords used and when. Keywords used at various points in this collection include florence and hurricaneflorence. 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. Questions about this dataset can be sent to sfm@gwu.edu. George Washington University researchers should contact us for access to the tweets.