Published July 1, 2022 | Version v1
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A dataset of journalists on Twitter

Authors/Creators

  • 1. IIT-CNR

Description

This dataset comprises the Twitter timelines of journalists belonging to 17 different countries from 8 different continental regions, downloaded in May 2018. We used the Twitter REST API, which allows us to download, for a given user, the last 3200 tweets since the time of the download. 

Files

journalists.zip

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Funding

European Commission
HumanE-AI-Net - HumanE AI Network 952026
European Commission
MARVEL - Multimodal Extreme Scale Data Analytics for Smart Cities Environments 957337
European Commission
SoBigData-PlusPlus - SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics 871042

References

  • Toprak, Mustafa, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella, and Marco Conti. "Journalists' ego networks in Twitter: Invariant and distinctive structural features." Online Social Networks and Media 30 (2022): 100207.