Radical Right On Twitter (ROT)

We collected the Radical Right On Twitter dataset (ROT7) to advance research into radical right activity online. The resource addresses a lack of data in this field, particularly data that relates to the activity of radical right actors. The dataset was funded without commercial support. ROT follows six months of Twitter activity (8th July 2020 to 9th January 2021) from 35 radical right actors. We follow the advice given by Williams, Burnap, and Sloan (2017) for publishing Twitter data on sensitive topics. ROT includes: It contains: Actors' content: all content produced by the actors, including posts (n = 22,131), replies (n = 19,947), quotes (n = 11,314), and retweets (n = 37,283). Actors' profiles: Twitter profile information for all 35 actors. Actors' followers: a list of each actor's followers, collected each day (combined n = 6,592,056). Actors' friends: a list of each actor's friends, collected each day (combined n = 262,856). Direct engagement: all tweets which engage with actors, including replies, quotes and retweets (n = 31,443,828). Engagers’ followers: List of followers of every user who replied, quoted or retweeted actors' content. We only collected users' list of followers once, even if they engaged with the actors multiple times during the period studied. Other engagement: all other tweets collected through Twitter API that mentions an actor (n = 10,939,868).本研究采集了推特极右翼数据集（Radical Right On Twitter, ROT7），以推动针对线上极右翼活动的相关研究。该数据集填补了当前该领域的研究数据空白，尤其是针对极右翼行动者线上活动的相关数据。本数据集的资助未涉及商业支持，涵盖了35名极右翼行动者在2020年7月8日至2021年1月9日共计6个月的推特（Twitter）活动情况。本研究遵循Williams、Burnap与Sloan（2017）针对敏感话题推特数据发布的相关指导规范。本数据集包含以下内容：1. 行动者发布内容：涵盖行动者产生的全部内容，包括原创发文（n = 22,131）、回复推文（n = 19,947）、引用推文（n = 11,314）与转发推文（n = 37,283）；2. 行动者主页信息：全部35名行动者的推特个人主页详情；3. 行动者关注者列表：每日采集的各行动者关注者名单，累计总量为6,592,056；4. 行动者关注对象列表：每日采集的各行动者关注对象名单，累计总量为262,856；5. 直接互动内容：所有与行动者产生互动的推文，包括回复推文、引用推文与转发推文，共计31,443,828条；6. 互动者关注者列表：所有回复、引用或转发行动者内容的用户的关注者名单，本研究仅对每位互动用户采集一次关注者列表，即便该用户在本研究周期内多次与目标行动者产生互动；7. 其他互动内容：通过推特API采集到的所有提及行动者的其他推文，共计10,939,868条。