Social Media Research Guide

Collection of large Twitter datasets (tweet IDs) on a variety of newsworthy topics, including a number of political and election-related topics (primarily US) back to 2016. To use them, you have to rehydrate the tweets using a tool like DocNow’s Hydrator: https://github.com/DocNow/hydrator.

The DocNow Catalog is a collectively curated listing of Twitter datasets. Public datasets are shared as Tweet IDs, which can be hydrated back into full datasets using the DocNow Hydrator desktop application.

Search Facebook and Twitter for Members of Congress and Government Agencies from 2014-2018

University of Michigan researchers can access a compilation of tweets known as the “U.S. and India Politicians Dataset” without charge. Anmol Panda (anmolp@umich.edu) and Libby Hemphill (libbyh@umich.edu) in the School of Information collect and maintain the data and its associated metadata.. MIDAS, CSCAR and ARC together manage and support the use of this data repository.

Contains tweets from @realdonaldtrump from June 15, 2015 until January 8, 2021

Information about archiving official social media accounts covered under the Presidential Record Act