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Release v2.66

27 Sep 08:56
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The repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, we are only publicly releasing the Tweet IDs of the collected Tweets. The data is released for non-commercial research use.

This release contains Tweet IDs collected from 1/21/20 - 9/25/21.

Please refer to the README for more details regarding data, data organization and data usage agreement.

Data Usage Agreement / How to Cite

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license, remain in compliance with Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite the following manuscript:

Chen E, Lerman K, Ferrara E
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
JMIR Public Health Surveillance 2020;6(2):e19273
DOI: 10.2196/19273
PMID: 32427106

BibTeX:

@article{chen2020tracking,
  title={Tracking social media discourse about the covid-19 pandemic: Development of a public coronavirus twitter data set},
  author={Chen, Emily and Lerman, Kristina and Ferrara, Emilio},
  journal={JMIR Public Health and Surveillance},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={e19273},
  year={2020},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada}
}

Statistics Summary (v2.66)

Number of Tweets : 1,935,461,654

Language breakdown of top 10 most prevalent languages :

Language ISO No. tweets % total Tweets
English en 1,229,797,818 63.54%
Spanish es 235,389,409 12.16%
Portuguese pt 82,055,923 4.24%
Indonesian in 62,900,576 3.25%
French fr 60,793,256 3.14%
Undefined und 56,879,037 2.94%
German de 34,556,126 1.79%
Thai th 28,050,015 1.45%
Japanese ja 26,231,565 1.36%
Italian it 20,013,955 1.03%

Known Gaps

Date Time
2/1/2020 4:00 - 9:00 UTC
2/8/2020 6:00 - 7:00 UTC
2/22/2020 21:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/23/2020 0:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/24/2020 0:00 - 4:00 UTC
2/25/2020 0:00 - 3:00 UTC
3/2/2020 Intermittent Internet Connectivity Issues
5/14/2020 7:00 - 8:00 UTC

Inquiries

If you have technical questions about the data collection, please contact Emily Chen at echen920[at]usc[dot]edu.

If you have any further questions about this dataset please contact Dr. Emilio Ferrara at emiliofe[at]usc[dot]edu.

Release v2.65

20 Sep 06:19
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The repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, we are only publicly releasing the Tweet IDs of the collected Tweets. The data is released for non-commercial research use.

This release contains Tweet IDs collected from 1/21/20 - 9/17/21.

Please refer to the README for more details regarding data, data organization and data usage agreement.

Data Usage Agreement / How to Cite

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license, remain in compliance with Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite the following manuscript:

Chen E, Lerman K, Ferrara E
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
JMIR Public Health Surveillance 2020;6(2):e19273
DOI: 10.2196/19273
PMID: 32427106

BibTeX:

@article{chen2020tracking,
  title={Tracking social media discourse about the covid-19 pandemic: Development of a public coronavirus twitter data set},
  author={Chen, Emily and Lerman, Kristina and Ferrara, Emilio},
  journal={JMIR Public Health and Surveillance},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={e19273},
  year={2020},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada}
}

Statistics Summary (v2.65)

Number of Tweets : 1,914,366,526

Language breakdown of top 10 most prevalent languages :

Language ISO No. tweets % total Tweets
English en 1,215,653,703 63.5%
Spanish es 233,530,872 12.2%
Portuguese pt 81,021,521 4.23%
Indonesian in 62,518,811 3.27%
French fr 60,136,898 3.14%
Undefined und 56,212,980 2.94%
German de 34,095,122 1.78%
Thai th 27,811,052 1.45%
Japanese ja 25,896,253 1.35%
Italian it 19,769,849 1.03%

Known Gaps

Date Time
2/1/2020 4:00 - 9:00 UTC
2/8/2020 6:00 - 7:00 UTC
2/22/2020 21:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/23/2020 0:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/24/2020 0:00 - 4:00 UTC
2/25/2020 0:00 - 3:00 UTC
3/2/2020 Intermittent Internet Connectivity Issues
5/14/2020 7:00 - 8:00 UTC

Inquiries

If you have technical questions about the data collection, please contact Emily Chen at echen920[at]usc[dot]edu.

If you have any further questions about this dataset please contact Dr. Emilio Ferrara at emiliofe[at]usc[dot]edu.

Release v2.64

13 Sep 10:37
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The repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, we are only publicly releasing the Tweet IDs of the collected Tweets. The data is released for non-commercial research use.

This release contains Tweet IDs collected from 1/21/20 - 9/10/21.

Please refer to the README for more details regarding data, data organization and data usage agreement.

Data Usage Agreement / How to Cite

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license, remain in compliance with Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite the following manuscript:

Chen E, Lerman K, Ferrara E
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
JMIR Public Health Surveillance 2020;6(2):e19273
DOI: 10.2196/19273
PMID: 32427106

BibTeX:

@article{chen2020tracking,
  title={Tracking social media discourse about the covid-19 pandemic: Development of a public coronavirus twitter data set},
  author={Chen, Emily and Lerman, Kristina and Ferrara, Emilio},
  journal={JMIR Public Health and Surveillance},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={e19273},
  year={2020},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada}
}

Statistics Summary (v2.64)

Number of Tweets : 1,894,238,969

Language breakdown of top 10 most prevalent languages :

Language ISO No. tweets % total Tweets
English en 1,201,698,992 63.44%
Spanish es 231,932,975 12.24%
Portuguese pt 80,462,952 4.25%
Indonesian in 62,027,976 3.27%
French fr 59,487,845 3.14%
Undefined und 55,546,141 2.93%
German de 33,696,996 1.78%
Thai th 27,602,331 1.46%
Japanese ja 25,529,999 1.35%
Italian it 19,532,350 1.03%

Known Gaps

Date Time
2/1/2020 4:00 - 9:00 UTC
2/8/2020 6:00 - 7:00 UTC
2/22/2020 21:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/23/2020 0:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/24/2020 0:00 - 4:00 UTC
2/25/2020 0:00 - 3:00 UTC
3/2/2020 Intermittent Internet Connectivity Issues
5/14/2020 7:00 - 8:00 UTC

Inquiries

If you have technical questions about the data collection, please contact Emily Chen at echen920[at]usc[dot]edu.

If you have any further questions about this dataset please contact Dr. Emilio Ferrara at emiliofe[at]usc[dot]edu.

Release v2.63

07 Sep 02:06
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The repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, we are only publicly releasing the Tweet IDs of the collected Tweets. The data is released for non-commercial research use.

This release contains Tweet IDs collected from 1/21/20 - 9/03/21.

Please refer to the README for more details regarding data, data organization and data usage agreement.

Data Usage Agreement / How to Cite

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license, remain in compliance with Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite the following manuscript:

Chen E, Lerman K, Ferrara E
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
JMIR Public Health Surveillance 2020;6(2):e19273
DOI: 10.2196/19273
PMID: 32427106

BibTeX:

@article{chen2020tracking,
  title={Tracking social media discourse about the covid-19 pandemic: Development of a public coronavirus twitter data set},
  author={Chen, Emily and Lerman, Kristina and Ferrara, Emilio},
  journal={JMIR Public Health and Surveillance},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={e19273},
  year={2020},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada}
}

Statistics Summary (v2.63)

Number of Tweets : 1,873,386,736

Language breakdown of top 10 most prevalent languages :

Language ISO No. tweets % total Tweets
English en 1,187,304,119 63.38%
Spanish es 230,112,594 12.28%
Portuguese pt 80,114,319 4.28%
Indonesian in 61,598,475 3.29%
French fr 58,711,326 3.13%
Undefined und 54,853,149 2.93%
German de 33,237,111 1.77%
Thai th 27,403,338 1.46%
Japanese ja 25,130,739 1.34%
Italian it 19,276,706 1.03%

Known Gaps

Date Time
2/1/2020 4:00 - 9:00 UTC
2/8/2020 6:00 - 7:00 UTC
2/22/2020 21:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/23/2020 0:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/24/2020 0:00 - 4:00 UTC
2/25/2020 0:00 - 3:00 UTC
3/2/2020 Intermittent Internet Connectivity Issues
5/14/2020 7:00 - 8:00 UTC

Inquiries

If you have technical questions about the data collection, please contact Emily Chen at echen920[at]usc[dot]edu.

If you have any further questions about this dataset please contact Dr. Emilio Ferrara at emiliofe[at]usc[dot]edu.

Release v2.62

30 Aug 10:48
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The repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, we are only publicly releasing the Tweet IDs of the collected Tweets. The data is released for non-commercial research use.

This release contains Tweet IDs collected from 1/21/20 - 8/27/21.

Please refer to the README for more details regarding data, data organization and data usage agreement.

Data Usage Agreement / How to Cite

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license, remain in compliance with Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite the following manuscript:

Chen E, Lerman K, Ferrara E
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
JMIR Public Health Surveillance 2020;6(2):e19273
DOI: 10.2196/19273
PMID: 32427106

BibTeX:

@article{chen2020tracking,
  title={Tracking social media discourse about the covid-19 pandemic: Development of a public coronavirus twitter data set},
  author={Chen, Emily and Lerman, Kristina and Ferrara, Emilio},
  journal={JMIR Public Health and Surveillance},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={e19273},
  year={2020},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada}
}

Statistics Summary (v2.62)

Number of Tweets : 1,851,213,185

Language breakdown of top 10 most prevalent languages :

Language ISO No. tweets % total Tweets
English en 1,172,546,804 63.34%
Spanish es 228,313,132 12.33%
Portuguese pt 79,559,336 4.3%
Indonesian in 60,991,610 3.29%
French fr 57,818,458 3.12%
Undefined und 54,152,050 2.93%
German de 32,760,460 1.77%
Thai th 27,034,124 1.46%
Japanese ja 24,601,430 1.33%
Italian it 19,027,965 1.03%

Known Gaps

Date Time
2/1/2020 4:00 - 9:00 UTC
2/8/2020 6:00 - 7:00 UTC
2/22/2020 21:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/23/2020 0:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/24/2020 0:00 - 4:00 UTC
2/25/2020 0:00 - 3:00 UTC
3/2/2020 Intermittent Internet Connectivity Issues
5/14/2020 7:00 - 8:00 UTC

Inquiries

If you have technical questions about the data collection, please contact Emily Chen at echen920[at]usc[dot]edu.

If you have any further questions about this dataset please contact Dr. Emilio Ferrara at emiliofe[at]usc[dot]edu.

Release v2.61

24 Aug 01:14
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The repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, we are only publicly releasing the Tweet IDs of the collected Tweets. The data is released for non-commercial research use.

This release contains Tweet IDs collected from 1/21/20 - 8/20/21.

Please refer to the README for more details regarding data, data organization and data usage agreement.

Data Usage Agreement / How to Cite

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license, remain in compliance with Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite the following manuscript:

Chen E, Lerman K, Ferrara E
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
JMIR Public Health Surveillance 2020;6(2):e19273
DOI: 10.2196/19273
PMID: 32427106

BibTeX:

@article{chen2020tracking,
  title={Tracking social media discourse about the covid-19 pandemic: Development of a public coronavirus twitter data set},
  author={Chen, Emily and Lerman, Kristina and Ferrara, Emilio},
  journal={JMIR Public Health and Surveillance},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={e19273},
  year={2020},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada}
}

Statistics Summary (v2.61)

Number of Tweets : 1,827,636,629

Language breakdown of top 10 most prevalent languages :

Language ISO No. tweets % total Tweets
English en 1,156,672,793 63.29%
Spanish es 226,543,006 12.4%
Portuguese pt 78,933,436 4.32%
Indonesian in 60,299,364 3.3%
French fr 56,843,328 3.11%
Undefined und 53,391,578 2.92%
German de 32,298,372 1.77%
Thai th 26,523,789 1.45%
Japanese ja 24,002,709 1.31%
Italian it 18,785,256 1.03%

Known Gaps

Date Time
2/1/2020 4:00 - 9:00 UTC
2/8/2020 6:00 - 7:00 UTC
2/22/2020 21:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/23/2020 0:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/24/2020 0:00 - 4:00 UTC
2/25/2020 0:00 - 3:00 UTC
3/2/2020 Intermittent Internet Connectivity Issues
5/14/2020 7:00 - 8:00 UTC

Inquiries

If you have technical questions about the data collection, please contact Emily Chen at echen920[at]usc[dot]edu.

If you have any further questions about this dataset please contact Dr. Emilio Ferrara at emiliofe[at]usc[dot]edu.

Release v2.60

17 Aug 00:26
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The repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, we are only publicly releasing the Tweet IDs of the collected Tweets. The data is released for non-commercial research use.

This release contains Tweet IDs collected from 1/21/20 - 8/13/21.

Please refer to the README for more details regarding data, data organization and data usage agreement.

Data Usage Agreement / How to Cite

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license, remain in compliance with Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite the following manuscript:

Chen E, Lerman K, Ferrara E
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
JMIR Public Health Surveillance 2020;6(2):e19273
DOI: 10.2196/19273
PMID: 32427106

BibTeX:

@article{chen2020tracking,
  title={Tracking social media discourse about the covid-19 pandemic: Development of a public coronavirus twitter data set},
  author={Chen, Emily and Lerman, Kristina and Ferrara, Emilio},
  journal={JMIR Public Health and Surveillance},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={e19273},
  year={2020},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada}
}

Statistics Summary (v2.60)

Number of Tweets : 1,804,849,738

Language breakdown of top 10 most prevalent languages :

Language ISO No. tweets % total Tweets
English en 1,141,811,458 63.26%
Spanish es 224,449,439 12.44%
Portuguese pt 78,191,172 4.33%
Indonesian in 59,375,752 3.29%
French fr 55,949,478 3.1%
Undefined und 52,682,527 2.92%
German de 31,913,310 1.77%
Thai th 26,164,607 1.45%
Japanese ja 23,397,567 1.3%
Italian it 18,568,926 1.03%

Known Gaps

Date Time
2/1/2020 4:00 - 9:00 UTC
2/8/2020 6:00 - 7:00 UTC
2/22/2020 21:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/23/2020 0:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/24/2020 0:00 - 4:00 UTC
2/25/2020 0:00 - 3:00 UTC
3/2/2020 Intermittent Internet Connectivity Issues
5/14/2020 7:00 - 8:00 UTC

Inquiries

If you have technical questions about the data collection, please contact Emily Chen at echen920[at]usc[dot]edu.

If you have any further questions about this dataset please contact Dr. Emilio Ferrara at emiliofe[at]usc[dot]edu.

Release v2.59

10 Aug 08:14
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The repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, we are only publicly releasing the Tweet IDs of the collected Tweets. The data is released for non-commercial research use.

This release contains Tweet IDs collected from 1/21/20 - 8/06/21.

Please refer to the README for more details regarding data, data organization and data usage agreement.

Data Usage Agreement / How to Cite

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license, remain in compliance with Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite the following manuscript:

Chen E, Lerman K, Ferrara E
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
JMIR Public Health Surveillance 2020;6(2):e19273
DOI: 10.2196/19273
PMID: 32427106

BibTeX:

@article{chen2020tracking,
  title={Tracking social media discourse about the covid-19 pandemic: Development of a public coronavirus twitter data set},
  author={Chen, Emily and Lerman, Kristina and Ferrara, Emilio},
  journal={JMIR Public Health and Surveillance},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={e19273},
  year={2020},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada}
}

Statistics Summary (v2.59)

Number of Tweets : 1,778,540,842

Language breakdown of top 10 most prevalent languages :

Language ISO No. tweets % total Tweets
English en 1,124,617,850 63.23%
Spanish es 222,128,766 12.49%
Portuguese pt 77,502,077 4.36%
Indonesian in 57,858,778 3.25%
French fr 54,877,300 3.09%
Undefined und 51,879,620 2.92%
German de 31,463,626 1.77%
Thai th 25,689,631 1.44%
Japanese ja 22,794,876 1.28%
Italian it 18,361,175 1.03%

Known Gaps

Date Time
2/1/2020 4:00 - 9:00 UTC
2/8/2020 6:00 - 7:00 UTC
2/22/2020 21:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/23/2020 0:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/24/2020 0:00 - 4:00 UTC
2/25/2020 0:00 - 3:00 UTC
3/2/2020 Intermittent Internet Connectivity Issues
5/14/2020 7:00 - 8:00 UTC

Inquiries

If you have technical questions about the data collection, please contact Emily Chen at echen920[at]usc[dot]edu.

If you have any further questions about this dataset please contact Dr. Emilio Ferrara at emiliofe[at]usc[dot]edu.

Release v2.58

03 Aug 09:34
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The repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, we are only publicly releasing the Tweet IDs of the collected Tweets. The data is released for non-commercial research use.

This release contains Tweet IDs collected from 1/21/20 - 7/30/21.

Please refer to the README for more details regarding data, data organization and data usage agreement.

Data Usage Agreement / How to Cite

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license, remain in compliance with Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite the following manuscript:

Chen E, Lerman K, Ferrara E
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
JMIR Public Health Surveillance 2020;6(2):e19273
DOI: 10.2196/19273
PMID: 32427106

BibTeX:

@article{chen2020tracking,
  title={Tracking social media discourse about the covid-19 pandemic: Development of a public coronavirus twitter data set},
  author={Chen, Emily and Lerman, Kristina and Ferrara, Emilio},
  journal={JMIR Public Health and Surveillance},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={e19273},
  year={2020},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada}
}

Statistics Summary (v2.58)

Number of Tweets : 1,751,332,815

Language breakdown of top 10 most prevalent languages :

Language ISO No. tweets % total Tweets
English en 1,107,430,343 63.23%
Spanish es 219,874,566 12.55%
Portuguese pt 76,893,807 4.39%
Indonesian in 56,364,329 3.22%
French fr 53,647,348 3.06%
Undefined und 50,998,585 2.91%
German de 31,037,488 1.77%
Thai th 24,606,326 1.41%
Japanese ja 21,988,760 1.26%
Italian it 18,147,908 1.04%

Known Gaps

Date Time
2/1/2020 4:00 - 9:00 UTC
2/8/2020 6:00 - 7:00 UTC
2/22/2020 21:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/23/2020 0:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/24/2020 0:00 - 4:00 UTC
2/25/2020 0:00 - 3:00 UTC
3/2/2020 Intermittent Internet Connectivity Issues
5/14/2020 7:00 - 8:00 UTC

Inquiries

If you have technical questions about the data collection, please contact Emily Chen at echen920[at]usc[dot]edu.

If you have any further questions about this dataset please contact Dr. Emilio Ferrara at emiliofe[at]usc[dot]edu.

Release v2.57

26 Jul 09:54
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The repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, we are only publicly releasing the Tweet IDs of the collected Tweets. The data is released for non-commercial research use.

This release contains Tweet IDs collected from 1/21/20 - 7/23/21.

Please refer to the README for more details regarding data, data organization and data usage agreement.

Data Usage Agreement / How to Cite

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license, remain in compliance with Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite the following manuscript:

Chen E, Lerman K, Ferrara E
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
JMIR Public Health Surveillance 2020;6(2):e19273
DOI: 10.2196/19273
PMID: 32427106

BibTeX:

@article{chen2020tracking,
  title={Tracking social media discourse about the covid-19 pandemic: Development of a public coronavirus twitter data set},
  author={Chen, Emily and Lerman, Kristina and Ferrara, Emilio},
  journal={JMIR Public Health and Surveillance},
  volume={6},
  number={2},
  pages={e19273},
  year={2020},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada}
}

Statistics Summary (v2.57)

Number of Tweets : 1,724,887,123

Language breakdown of top 10 most prevalent languages :

Language ISO No. tweets % total Tweets
English en 1,090,993,772 63.25%
Spanish es 217,446,068 12.61%
Portuguese pt 76,417,549 4.43%
Indonesian in 54,749,221 3.17%
French fr 52,430,570 3.04%
Undefined und 50,144,493 2.91%
German de 30,599,613 1.77%
Thai th 23,587,217 1.37%
Japanese ja 21,425,852 1.24%
Italian it 17,875,073 1.04%

Known Gaps

Date Time
2/1/2020 4:00 - 9:00 UTC
2/8/2020 6:00 - 7:00 UTC
2/22/2020 21:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/23/2020 0:00 - 24:00 UTC
2/24/2020 0:00 - 4:00 UTC
2/25/2020 0:00 - 3:00 UTC
3/2/2020 Intermittent Internet Connectivity Issues
5/14/2020 7:00 - 8:00 UTC

Inquiries

If you have technical questions about the data collection, please contact Emily Chen at echen920[at]usc[dot]edu.

If you have any further questions about this dataset please contact Dr. Emilio Ferrara at emiliofe[at]usc[dot]edu.