2020 United States Presidential Election

This dataset contains the tweet ids of 295,670,111 tweets related to the 2020 United States Presidential Election. They were collected during 2020 and 2021 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 eleven 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: Democratic candidates (Twitter user timeline): democratic-candidate-timelines.txt Republican candidates (Twitter user timeline): republican-candidate-timelines.txt Democratic candidates filter (Twitter filter): democratic-candidate-filter-ids-[00-17].txt Republican candidates filter (Twitter filter): republican-candidate-filter-ids-[00-06].txt Election 2020 hashtags (Twitter filter): election2020-filter-ids-[00-01].txt Democratic Convention (Twitter filter): democratic-convention-filter-ids.txt Republican Convention (Twitter filter): republican-convention-filter-ids.txt First presidential debate (Twitter filter): first-debate-ids.txt Second presidential debate (Twitter filter): second-debate-ids.txt Vice Presidential debate (Twitter filter): vp-debate-filter-ids.txt Election Day (Twitter filter): electionday-filter-ids.txt There is a README.txt file for each collection containing additional documentation on how it was 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. For tweets collected from the Twitter filter stream, this is not a complete set of tweets that match the filter. Gaps may exist because: Twitter limits the number of tweets returned by the filter at any point in time. Social Feed Manager stops and starts the Twitter filter stream every 30 minutes. In Social Feed Manager, collecting is turned off while a user is making changes to the collection criteria. There were some operational issues, e.g., network interruptions and maintenance, during the collection period. Questions about this dataset can be sent to [e-mail]. George Washington University researchers should contact us for access to the full tweets.