Making Climate Social: Tweets Related to Climate Change, 2019

Social media is a transformative digital technology, collapsing the "six degrees of separation" which have previously characterised many social networks, and breaking down many of the barriers to individuals communicating with each other. Some commentators suggest that this is having profound effects across society, that social media has revolutionised the communication of controversial public issues such as climate change, and that this has significantly increased the volume and variety of scientists, politicians, journalists, non-governmental organisations, think tanks and members of the public in contact with each other. Tweets were collected related to climate change. The data deposited is a list of 53,296 tweet IDs, which can be used to retrieve tweets.