A Twitter Streaming Data Set collected before and after the Onset of the War between Russia and Ukraine in 2022

Social media can be mirrors of human interaction, society, and world events. Their reach enables the global dissemination of information in the shortest possible time and thus the individual participation of people all over the world in global events in almost real-time. However, equally efficient, these platforms can be misused in the context of information warfare in order to manipulate human perception and opinion formation. The outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine on February 24, 2022, demonstrated this in a striking manner. 

Here we publish a dataset of raw tweets collected by using the Twitter Streaming API in the context of the onset of the war which Russia started on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. A distinctive feature of the dataset is that it covers the period from one week before to one week after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. We publish the IDs of all tweets we streamed during that time, the time we rehydrated them using Twitter's API as well as the result of the rehydration. If you use this dataset, please cite our related Paper: 

Pohl, Janina Susanne and Seiler, Moritz Vinzent and Assenmacher, Dennis and Grimme, Christian, A Twitter Streaming Dataset collected before and after the Onset of the War between Russia and Ukraine in 2022 (March 25, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4066543