Congress Tweets (2017-2023) Analyzed
A Twitter dataset of 5,072,124 tweets from 1,835 congressional accounts, collected by Alex Litel via Twitter API (2017-2023). Each record contains tweet text, screen name, user ID, timestamp, retweet count, favorite count, source, retweet status. A daily collection of tweets from U.S. Congress members, committees, caucuses and party accounts, one JSON file per day; 11 days have no file in the source repository (for example 2022-01-15, 2022-03-17 and 2022-10-24 to 2022-10-31). metadata/historical-users-filtered.json, from the collection's companion repository, maps each account to its member or office, chamber, party and type. Suitable for political communication, sentiment analysis, election studies, congressional behavior, social media analysis.
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