MonkeyPox2022Tweets: The First Public Twitter Dataset on the 2022 MonkeyPox Outbreak

Please cite the following paper when using this dataset: N. Thakur, “MonkeyPox2022Tweets: The first public Twitter dataset on the 2022 MonkeyPox outbreak,” Preprints, 2022, DOI: 10.20944/preprints202206.0172.v3 Abstract The world is currently facing an outbreak of the monkeypox virus, and confirmed cases have been reported from 74 countries. Following a recent “emergency meeting,” the World Health Organization just declared monkeypox as a global health emergency. As a result, people from all over the world are using social media platforms, such as Twitter, for information seeking and sharing related to the outbreak, as well as for familiarizing themselves with the guidelines and protocols that are being recommended by various policy-making bodies to reduce the spread of the virus. This is resulting in the generation of tremendous amounts of Big Data related to such paradigms of social media behavior. Mining this Big Data and compiling it in the form of a dataset can serve a wide range of use-cases and applications such as analysis of public opinions, interests, views, perspectives, attitudes, and sentiment towards this outbreak. Therefore, this work presents MonkeyPox2022Tweets, an open-access dataset of 556,427 Tweets related to the 2022 monkeypox outbreak that were posted on Twitter since the first detected case of this outbreak on May 7, 2022. The dataset is compliant with the privacy policy, developer agreement, and guidelines for content redistribution of Twitter, as well as with the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) principles for scientific data management. Researchers using this dataset are invited to contribute a paper to the Special Issue - "The Role of Social Media during the Ongoing Outbreaks of COVID-19 and Monkeypox: Applications, Use-Cases, Analytics, and Beyond" of the Journal of Information. Link to the Special Issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/HEVYKLD167. Both research and review papers are welcome. Research papers presenting preliminary and proof-of-concept results are also welcome. Authors may also submit extended versions of their conference papers. The Journal of Information (ISSN 2078-2489) is indexed in Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), Ei Compendex, dblp, and other databases. For complete information about the indexing of this journal, please refer to: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/indexing Data Description The dataset consists of a total of 556,427 Tweet IDs of the same number of tweets about monkeypox that were posted on Twitter from 7th May 2022 to 9th October 2022 (the most recent date at the time of dataset upload). The Tweet IDs are presented in 6 different .txt files based on the timelines of the associated tweets. The following provides the details of these dataset files. Filename: TweetIDs_Part1.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 13926, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: May 7, 2022, to May 21, 2022) Filename: TweetIDs_Part2.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 17705, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: May 21, 2022, to May 27, 2022) Filename: TweetIDs_Part3.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 17585, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: May 27, 2022, to June 5, 2022) Filename: TweetIDs_Part4.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 19718, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: June 5, 2022, to June 11, 2022) Filename: TweetIDs_Part5.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 46718, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: June 12, 2022, to June 30, 2022) Filename: TweetIDs_Part6.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 138711, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: July 1, 2022, to July 23, 2022) Filename: TweetIDs_Part7.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 105890, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: July 24, 2022, to July 31, 2022) Filename: TweetIDs_Part8.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 93959, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: August 1, 2022, to August 9, 2022) Filename: TweetIDs_Part9.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 50832, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: August 10, 2022, to August 24, 2022) Filename: TweetIDs_Part10.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 39042, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: August 25, 2022, to September 19, 2022) Filename: TweetIDs_Part11.txt (No. of Tweet IDs: 12341, Date Range of the associated Tweet IDs: September 20, 2022, to October 9, 2022) The dataset contains only Tweet IDs in compliance with the terms and conditions mentioned in the privacy policy, developer agreement, and guidelines for content redistribution of Twitter. The Tweet IDs need to be hydrated to be used. For hydrating this dataset, the Hydrator application (link to download and a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Hydrator) may be used.