Data Sources: Social Media (Twitter, etc.)

The DREAM Lab supports a number of tools for acquiring and analyzing social media data. Feel free to schedule a consultation if these guides do not answer your questions.

• BrandWatch
  A browser-based tool for harvesting and analyzing Tweets, as well as other social media sources such as Reddit, WordPress.com blogs, and select public Facebook posts. Request access to BrandWatch
• Twarc
  A Free and Open Source Python script that uses Twitter's public API to harvest Tweets and their associated metadata
• NCapture
  A Chrome browser plug-in that will capture Tweets in a format usable in NVIVO qualitative data analysis software. Download NCatpure from the Chrome store
• Everything we know about Twitter
  An off-site guide to a compilation of our Twitter knowledge.
• Text Data Mining
  Social media data analysis can be considered a type of text data mining. The Library has a variety of other sources of texts that can be mined, and API's that can be used to compile your own full-text datasets.

There are also online sources of pre-existing datasets:

• Document the Now has a catalog of more than 100 datasets totaling more than 4 billion tweet ID's.
• Internet Archive
  • Nipsey Hussle death tweet archive
  • Obama White House Twitter Archives
    Separate files for @potus, @flotus, and @whitehouse
• The University of North Carolin has posted archived tweets from Confederate monument protests in 2017, 18, and 19.