Twitter (X) × Race & ethnicity6 datasets that are both from Twitter (X) and tagged Race & ethnicity.
6 datasets.
A twitter dataset of 767,139 tweet IDs from #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter (10% Gardenhose sample, Aug 2014–Aug 2015), collected by Gallagher (Northeastern University, 2018). Each record contains tweet IDs only — full content requires hydration. Paired collection of #BLM and #ALM tweets enabling contrastive social movement analysis. Suitable for social movement analysis, racial discourse, political polarization.
A Twitter (MLK Day 2013) dataset of 327,707 users, 396,671 multiplex edges (retweets, mentions, replies), collected by D. R. G. and D. M.. Each record contains source, target, weight, layer (1=retweet, 2=mention, 3=reply). Multiplex Twitter network during MLK Day 2013 with three interaction layers. Suitable for multiplex network analysis, event dynamics, information propagation.
Twitter conversations around the Ferguson unrest after the shooting of Michael Brown (August 2014), from the PHEME rumour dataset (Zubiaga, Liakata, Procter, Kochkina and colleagues; the complete release for rumour detection and veracity classification, figshare 6392078): 1,143 threads, each a source tweet and its replies, of which 284 were judged rumours by journalists and 859 not. Every rumour also carries its veracity as later established: 10 true, 8 false and 266 unverified. 24,175 tweets in all, with full tweet JSON. ECHO builds the reply network (22,260 reply links, each reply pointing to the tweet it answers) and labels each tweet with its thread's rumour status and, for source tweets, the veracity. Useful for rumour detection, rumour verification and modelling how conversations unfold. Annotations CC BY 4.0; Twitter retains the rights to tweet content. The archive PHEME_veracity.tar.bz2 is gzip-compressed despite its name (the name is the authors' own, kept so the checksum matches figshare): extract it with `tar xzf`.
A Twitter (#BlackLivesMatter) dataset of 9,165 tweets (3,084 hate speech, 6,081 non-hate), collected by Giorgi et al. via Twitter API (2020). Each record contains tweet text, binary hate label (0/1), hashtags, source platform, user friends/favourites count, retweet flag. 9,165 BLM-related tweets with hate speech labels — captures online discourse during the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement with 3,084 hate speech examples. Suitable for hate speech detection, social movement analysis, BLM discourse research, Twitter content moderation, political communication, racial justice NLP.
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.
A twitter dataset of tweet IDs from the 2017 Charlottesville protests, collected by Littman via Social Feed Manager (GWU Libraries). Each record contains tweet IDs only — full content requires hydration. Focused crisis dataset from a pivotal far-right rally and counter-protest event. Suitable for crisis informatics, hate speech, political extremism, social media during unrest.
