Tweets’ dataset about Algerian campus

Nowadays, social media sites have become a vital part of humans’ lives, allowing peoples to express their opinions, their sentiments and feelings about whatever, whenever and wherever. Therefore, it comes a huge amount of data in which attract researchers to explore and analyse these sites to address research questions in various fields. This data article is about 21422 public tweets related to Algerian universities generated by 9477 users, made during the nine years—January 2011 to March 2020. The retrieved tweets were collected based on specific queries using a python 3 library called GetOldTweets3. Each tweet is represented by 11 variables: ID, username, text, date, number of retweets, number of favorites, mentions, hashtags, and permalink.