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>

本数据集涵盖2018年9月17日至2018年11月6日期间，所有由2018年美国众议院竞选候选人所属推特（Twitter）账号发布、或提及该类账号、或回复该类账号的推文。
候选人推特账号列表已在此处发布：https://github.com/vegetable68/Midterm-2018-candidates

总体而言，本数据集共包含来自100万用户（含候选人账号本身）的170万条针对候选人的推文，以及650万条相关转推。

若使用本数据集，请引用以下论文：
- 《针对美国中期选举候选人的对抗性推特互动行为测量》（Towards Measuring Adversarial Twitter Interactions against Candidates in the US Midterm Elections），作者：Yiqing Hua、Thomas Ristenpart、Mor Naaman，发表于第14届博客与社交媒体年度会议（ICWSM 2020）会议论文集
- 《针对政治候选人实施对抗性互动的推特用户特征分析》（Characterizing Twitter Users Who Engage in Adversarial Interactions against Political Candidates），作者：Yiqing Hua、Mor Naaman、Thomas Ristenpart，发表于2020年人机交互系统国际会议（CHI 2020）会议论文集

如有疑问，请联系Yiqing Hua（邮箱：[e-mail]）。