Twitter (X) × Election10 datasets that are both from Twitter (X) and tagged Election.
10 datasets.
A twitter dataset of 295,670,111 tweet IDs from the 2020 U.S. presidential election, collected by Wrubel and Kerchner via Social Feed Manager (GWU Libraries). Each record contains tweet IDs only — full content requires hydration. Complete tweet archive from the 2020 election including post-election period and January 6 lead-up. Suitable for election discourse, misinformation, political polarization, post-election unrest.
A twitter dataset of ~280 million tweet IDs from the 2016 U.S. presidential election period, collected by Littman, Wrubel, and Kerchner via Social Feed Manager (GWU Libraries). Each record contains tweet IDs only — full content requires hydration. One of the largest election tweet archives, covering the full 2016 campaign including debates, conventions, and election night. Suitable for election discourse, political polarization, misinformation spread, retweet diffusion.
A Twitter/X dataset of 42,014,825 tweets from the 2024 US presidential election period across 39 data parts with full engagement metadata (41,561,521 records with engagement metrics), collected by USC Information Sciences Institute via Twitter/X API during the 2024 US election period. Each record contains tweet text, engagement metrics (reply count, retweet count, like count, quote count, view count), language, media attachments, reply chain metadata, user location, and publication timestamp. The dataset is notable for its one of the largest publicly available datasets from the 2024 US presidential election, with full engagement metadata per tweet enabling study of information amplification and political discourse dynamics. Intended for research into political opinion mining, election discourse analysis, misinformation detection, engagement prediction, and temporal analysis of political social media.
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.
A twitter dataset of 2,041,399 tweet IDs from all members of the 115th U.S. Congress, collected by Littman via Social Feed Manager (GWU Libraries). Each record contains tweet IDs only — full content requires hydration. Complete tweet archive from all 115th Congress members enabling legislator communication and retweet network analysis. Suitable for political discourse, legislator communication patterns, congressional social media behavior.
A Twitter dataset of 346,573 nodes, 1,091,552 edges, collected by Shao et al. via Hoaxy API (OSoMe/Indiana University). Each record contains from_user_id, to_user_id, tweet_id, tweet_created_at, site_type (claim/fact-checking). Retweet diffusion network of misinformation and fact-checking content surrounding the 2016 US election; distinguishes claim vs. fact-checking retweets.. Suitable for Misinformation diffusion, fact-checking network analysis, network epidemiology..
A Twitter dataset of 18470 nodes, 48365 edges, collected by Nikolov et al. (OSoMe/Indiana University), 2010. Each record contains retweet edgelist, mention edgelist, node political labels (left/right/-). Twitter retweet and mention networks from 2010 with political leaning labels per user; three graph types for polarization analysis.. Suitable for Political polarization, echo chamber detection, social bubble measurement..
A NDS-VU signed network repository dataset of 10,885 users and 251,406 signed interaction edges from Italian referendum Twitter, collected by NDS-VU (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2016). Each record contains directed signed edges between nodes: sign (+1 or -1) representing positive/negative relationships; no edge weights beyond binary sign. Signed retweet/mention network from the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum on Twitter, where edges represent support (+1) or opposition (-1) interactions between users discussing the referendum. Suitable for political polarization, signed social network analysis, referendum discourse.
A Twitter dataset of 32 nodes, 496 edges, collected by Yang, Ferrara, and Menczer (OSoMe/Indiana University). Each record contains user network (GML), suspicious tweet text, message cascades, targeted media accounts. Network and content evidence of a coordinated inauthentic influence operation targeting the 2020 US presidential election on Twitter.. Suitable for Coordinated inauthentic behavior detection, influence operations research, election integrity analysis..
A Twitter dataset of 6,184 tweets from Fortune 100 companies, collected by Kevin McElwee via Twitter API. Each record contains tweet text, corporation name, sector, timestamp, hashtags, racial justice label, BLM mention, Juneteenth mention, donation mention. A manually annotated dataset of tweets from Fortune 100 companies during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, capturing corporate responses to a major social movement. Suitable for corporate activism, social movement response, political communication, crisis communication, public relations, brand activism.
