The Database of Construction and Evolution of China's Scientific and Technological Image on International Social Media — An Analysis of Huawei-Related Issues on the X Platform from 2015 to 2025

Twitter_data contains English-language public posts from X, formerly Twitter, related to Huawei from 2015 to 2025. The dataset includes tweet text, posting time, tweet IDs, basic author metadata, engagement metrics such as likes, reposts, replies, quotes, and views, as well as collection metadata such as query windows and collection timestamps. The corpus focuses on Huawei-related discussions involving Chinese technology, 5G, chips, innovation, national security, sanctions, and the Entity List. It is suitable for computational communication research, topic modeling, semantic network analysis, sentiment and emotion analysis, and studies of China’s technological image on international social media. This dataset represents publicly accessible English-language posts returned by X’s search interface at the time of collection. It should not be interpreted as a complete archive of all historical Huawei-related posts on the platform. Users should follow relevant platform policies, research ethics, and privacy protection standards when using the data.