Tweets - US Senators of 115th Congress until Sept 2018

Twitter Scrape on tweets of official US senator's Twitter accounts of the 115th Congress US115thcongress.tar.gz: The 115th Congress' members and their respective Twitter accounts have been compared with https://www.socialseer.com/resources/us-senator-twitter-accounts/ (accessed September 27, 2018). Two account names have been substituted: SenatorSanders --> SenSanders SenBennetCO --> SenatorBennet The tweets have been scraped in .json until February 11, 2019. The tweets' plain text has been rid of http links and concatenated per user until September 26, 2018 and saved in .txt format. and split into separate folders 'Republican', 'Democrat', and 'Independent'. NOTE that picture links have not been removed! (pic.*) The tweets have been scraped with the Python library: https://github.com/taspinar/twitterscraper scrape_US115thcongress_tweets.ipynb: iPython notebook that should exemplify the scraping process balanced_Democrats_Republicans: list of account names used for the results in the associated paper Decompression: tar -zxvf US115thcongress.tar.gz