Russian Troll Tweets Dataset
This dataset is taken as-it-is and published by NBC News in the article
Twitter deleted 200,000 Russian troll tweets, Ben Popken, Feb.14.2018, NBC News
Please cite the authors of the dataset if you want to use it in your work.
A database of more than 200,000 tweets that Twitter has tied to "malicious activity" from Russia-linked accounts during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
To recreate a link to an individual tweet found in the spreadsheet, replace "user_key" in https://twitter.com/user_key/status/tweet_id with the screenname from the "user_key" field and "tweet_id" with the number in the "tweet_id" field.
Tweets Dataset Header
"user_id","user_key","created_at","created_str","retweet_count","retweeted","favorite_count","text","tweet_id","source","hashtags","expanded_urls","posted","mentions","retweeted_status_id","in_reply_to_status_id"
Users Dataset Header
"id","location","name","followers_count","statuses_count","time_zone","verified","lang","screen_name","description","created_at","favourites_count","friends_count","listed_count"
From fivethirtyeight/russian-troll-tweets. This data was used in the FiveThirtyEight story Why We’re Sharing 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets.
Please cite the authors of the dataset if you want to use it in your work.