{"id":19733,"date":"2021-11-17T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/?p=19733"},"modified":"2024-12-11T00:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T00:49:20","slug":"start-your-infodemic-research-with-these-newly-released-covid-19-twitter-ids-datasets-from-smlabto-covid-19-twitter-pandemic-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/2021\/11\/17\/start-your-infodemic-research-with-these-newly-released-covid-19-twitter-ids-datasets-from-smlabto-covid-19-twitter-pandemic-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Your #Infodemic Research with These Newly Released COVID-19 Twitter IDs Datasets from @SMLabTO’s COVID-19 Twitter Pandemic Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, we are pleased to announce the formal release of a new COVID-19 Twitter Pandemic Archive<\/a>, a catalog of datasets containing billions of Tweet IDs for COVID-19 tweets and a set of data visualizations featuring high-level monthly stats about the COVID-19 conversations on Twitter. The datasets are being offered as-is for archiving and non-commercial research purposes and are free to download and reuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tweets in these datasets are collected via Twitter\u2019s COVID-19 Streaming Endpoint (API) using a custom script developed by the Social Media Lab<\/a>. According to Twitter, this new streaming endpoint has no data volume or throughput limitations, and offers a real-time, full-fidelity stream of public Tweets containing the full conversation about COVID-19. (For more information about what tweets are included in this collection see Twitter\u2019s filtering rules for this endpoint.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As per Twitter\u2019s API Terms, each dataset only includes Tweet IDs (as opposed to the actual tweets and associated metadata). New datasets are uploaded to the web at the beginning of each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For each month, we prepare two data files:<\/p>\n\n\n\n