Retweet graphs of political hashtags in 2021 Iranian presidential election

Social networks have been a huge point of interest in recent decades in multiple research areas, studied from various perspectives, including the way information is spread between users on social platforms. This dataset is a collection of retweet networks of 16 political hashtags from former Farsi Twitter (now Farsi X), gathered in the time span of April 29, 2021, to June 24, 2021, in the vicinity of the 2021 Iranian presidential election.
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Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.34tmpg4wq](10.5061/dryad.34tmpg4wq)

## Description of the data and file structure

#### File: Retweet_Data.zip

**Description:** 

Each hashtag contains 11 graphml files corresponding to 11 sub-intervals of the total time span and two other pre-processed graphml files, which are the combination of the first half and the second half of the total time interval.

Each of the 11 original graphml files contains multidigraphs of nodes as users and edges as retweets. The nodes have attributes:

* 'name'
* 'screenname'
* 'user_id'
* 'id',

while the edges have only one attribute:

* 'created_at',

which is a timestamp of the retweet time. Name, screenname and user_id are the only unique user attributes among different time intervals and hashtags.

The remaining two graphml files are weighted digraphs with link weights being the number of times a retweet has happened between the predecessor and the succesor nodes.

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