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Who Did US Congress Retweet in 2017

Name: Who Did US Congress Retweet in 2017
Published: 2019-01-28
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Libby Hemphill, University of Michigan; Angela Schopke, University of Michigan; Caroline Hodge, University of Michigan; Chris Bredernitz, University of Michigan

Version: View help for Version V1

Version Title: View help for Version Title Initial deposit

Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
retweets_2017_complete.csv	text/csv	427.7 MB	01/28/2019 06:27:AM

Project Citation:

Hemphill, Libby, Schopke, Angela, Hodge, Caroline, and Bredernitz, Chris. Who Did US Congress Retweet in 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-01-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/E108303V1

Project Description

Summary: This dataset includes the retweets posted on Twitter by accounts associated with members of the US Congress in 2017. The list of accounts combines two sources:

Justin Littman's list (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/UIVHQR)
The United States project list (https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators)

Tweets were collected using Twitter's Search API through the twitter_user_collector Python script (https://github.com/casmlab/twitter_user_collector).

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Congress; twitter

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1/1/2017 – 12/31/2017 (Calendar Year 2017)

Universe: 462 Twitter accounts related to the US Congress

447 members of the United States Congress (MCs)
15 accounts associated with (a) former or deceased MCs or (b) campaigns associated with MCs

Data about members of Congress (e.g., party, chamber, gender, birthdate)

Data Type(s): geographic information system (GIS) data; other; text

Methodology

Data Source: Twitter Search API

Collection Mode(s): other

Unit(s) of Observation: retweets

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V2 [2020-05-14]

V1 [2019-01-28]

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