Dataset on the online cryptocurrency discussion on Twitter, Telegram, and Discord

This Dataset is described in Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation. IEEE Access (2020), a study that aims to map and assess the extent of cryptocurrency manipulations within and across the online ecosystems of Twitter, Telegram, and Discord. Starting from tweets mentioning cryptocurrencies, we leveraged and followed invite URLs from platform to platform, building the invite-link network, in order to study the invite link diffusion process.

Please, refer to the paper below for more details.

Nizzoli, L., Tardelli, S., Avvenuti, M., Cresci, S., Tesconi, M. & Ferrara, E. (2020). Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation. IEEE Access (2020).

This dataset is composed of: 

~16M tweet ids shared between March and May 2019, mentioning at least one of the 3,822 cryptocurrencies (cashtags) provided by the CryptoCompare public API;

~13k nodes of the invite-link network, i.e., the information about the Telegram/Discord channels and Twitter users involved in the cryptocurrency discussion (e.g., id, name, audience, invite URL);

~62k edges of the invite-link network, i.e., the information about the flow of invites (e.g., source id, target id, weight).

With such information, one can easily retrieve the content of channels and messages through Twitter, Telegram, and Discord public APIs.

Please, refer to the README file for more details about the fields.