Twitter Death Hoaxes dataset

This is a dataset of death reports collected from Twitter between 1st January, 2012 and 31st December, 2014. It was collected by tracking the keyword 'RIP', and matching those tweets in which a name is mentioned next to RIP. Matching names were identified by using Wikidata as a database of names. For more details, please refer to the paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07311<br><br>The dataset contains 4,007 death reports, of which 2,301 are real deaths, 1,092 are commemorations and 614 are fake deaths.<br>Along with this dataset, the word embeddings models used in this paper are also provided.<br>This dataset is released in accordance with Twitter's TOS, which allows sharing of tweet IDs and are intended for non-commercial research.<br>Note: Twitter's developer policy doesn't allow sharing more than 1,500,000 tweet IDs (https://dev.twitter.com/overview/terms/policy#updated-policy), unless the author is affiliated with an academic institution (which is my case) and tweet IDs are solely used for non-commercial purposes (https://twittercommunity.com/t/policy-update-clarification-research-use-cases/87566). Hence, by downloading these datasets you agree that you will not use it for commercial purposes.