3 Million Russian Troll Tweets (FiveThirtyEight) Analyzed
The 2,946,207 tweets sent from 2,843 Twitter handles that Twitter listed to the US Congress as connected to the Internet Research Agency, a Russian "troll factory", as FiveThirtyEight published them in 2018 after receiving them from the Clemson University researchers Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren, who gathered them with a social-media listening tool. Each tweet has its text, the handle, the posting time, the collection time, the account's follower and following counts at that time, a region and a language assigned by the tool, whether it is a retweet or quote tweet, the researchers' account type and category, the link to the original tweet, and the first redirects of up to three t.co links in the text. 617,434 tweets are from the 931 handles that were first listed in June 2018.
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