2018 U.S. Congressional Election Tweet Ids

This dataset contains the tweet ids of 171,248,476 tweets related to the 2018 U.S. Congressional Election. They were collected between January 22, 2018 and January 3, 2019 from the Twitter API using Social Feed Manager. See each collection's README for dates of collection, accounts, and hashtags used in queries. These tweet ids are broken up into 5 collections. Each collection was collected either from the GET statuses/user_timeline method of the Twitter REST API (retrieved on a weekly schedule) or the POST statuses/filter method of the Twitter Stream API. The collections are: Senate candidates (Twitter user timeline): senate_accounts.txt House candidates (Twitter user timeline): house_accounts.txt Election filter (Twitter filter): election-filter-[1-3].txt Partisan Democratic filter (Twitter filter): partisan-dem-[1-4].txt Partisan Republican filter (Twitter filter): partisan-rep-[1-11].txt There is a README.txt file for each collection containing additional documentation on how it was collected. There is also an accounts.csv file for those collections collected from the GET statuses/user_timeline method, listing the Twitter accounts that were collected. The GET statuses/lookup method supports retrieving the complete tweet for a tweet id (known as hydrating). Tools such as Twarc or Hydrator can be used to hydrate tweets. Per Twitter’s Developer Policy, tweet ids may be publicly shared for academic purposes; tweets may not. Questions about this dataset can be sent to [e-mail]. George Washington University researchers should contact us for access to the tweets.