Weibo-Covid-19

Weibo is a popular Chinese-language messaging platform. The dataset contains all messages that included one of the following terms in Chinese: “vaccine,” “vaccination,” “adenovirus vector,” “inactivation,” “clinical trail, ” “Phase III trail,” “immune,” “antibody,” “mutant virus,” “herd immunity,” “novelcoronavirus,” “corona virus,” “Covid,” “novel corona pneumonia,” “Wuhan’s unknown pneumonia,” “pneumonia of unknowncause,” “nucleic acid testing,” “Wuhan pneumonia,” “human-to-human transmission,” and the following in English: “COVID-19,”“COVID,” “COVID19,” “SARS,” “SARS-2,” “SARS-CoV-2,” “nCoV,” “2019-nCoV.” The time interval was from 00:00:00 29April 2021 to 04:00:00 18 May 2021. It captures the activity of 1,052,896 users, who have 3,841,030 following relationship edgesamong them.

To protect the privacy of social media users, only the essential variables necessary for constructing post, comment, repost, and follower relationships were retained, while other variables that could potentially compromise user privacy have been removed from the new dataset.

*all id's are in the form of Universally Unique Identifier (UUID)

File name --- description:

* tweet_spider_by_tweet_id_uuid.json --- json list data file of the orignial post:

weibo_id_uuid: weibo post id,user_uuid: post author user id,creat_at_h: Weibo post publish time rounded down to hourly level

* comment.json --- Comment metadata of a Weibo post:

user_uuid: commenter user id ori_weibo_id_uuid: original post weibo id creat_at_h: Weibo post publish time rounded down to hourly level 

* repost.jsonl   --- Repost metadata of a Weibo post. Repost is a special type of Weibo post, with repost relation between original post and repost. The data structure of repost is the same as post.

user_uuid: repost author user idori_weibo_id_uuid: original post weibo idcreat_at_h: Weibo post publish time rounded down to hourly level

* follower.jsonl   --- json list data file of the follower profiles of users. This dataset describes the following relationship, in which fan refers to the user who follower others, and follower refers to the targer user who receive other user's following:

fan -> followerfan_id_uuid: fan user's idfollower_id_uuid: follower user's id