Songs of Ourselves: The Circulations and Citations of Nineteenth-Century American Poetry on Twitter

Using researcher access to Twitter’s full archive, our dataset reveals the
frequencies with which strings of text referring to 115 nineteenth-century
American poets have been published since Twitter’s launch in 2006. These
data reflect the number of extant tweets from 2022-2023 fully citing a
given author’s name as of the date the data were pulled. The notebook
strictly retrieves circulation counts (“get count”), so the data do not
contain any specific tweets, any personal information about Twitter users,
or references to their account information and thus aligns with the terms
of condition for researcher access to Twitter’s full archive as well as
preserves users’ right to be forgotten.