U.S. Midterm Election Twitter Dataset 2018

This dataset includes all tweets from September 17th, 2018 until November 6th, 2018 posted by, mentioning or replying to any of the Twitter accounts, that belongs to one of the candidates who was running for the United States' House of Representatives in 2018.<br>The list of the candidate Twitter accounts are published here: https://github.com/vegetable68/Midterm-2018-candidates<br>In total, our data consists of 1.7 million tweets and 6.5 million retweets of candidates from 1 million users (including the candidate accounts).<br>Please cite the following papers if you are going to use this dataset:<br>- <code>Towards Measuring Adversarial Twitter Interactions against Candidates in the US Midterm Elections</code>.Yiqing Hua, Thomas Ristenpart and Mor Naaman.<br><em>Proc. the 14th Annual Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)</em><br><code>- Characterizing Twitter Users Who Engage in Adversarial Interactions against Political Candidates</code>.<br>Yiqing Hua, Mor Naaman and Thomas Ristenpart.<em>Proc. the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020)</em><br><br><br>Contact Yiqing Hua ([e-mail]) for questions.<br>