#retweetthe8th: twitter dataset from the 2018 Referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland

<p>This dataset contains the tweet ids of 2,108,782 tweets related to the referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland and replace it with the&nbsp;Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland on May 25, 2018.&nbsp;</p> <p>They were collected between March 9th, 2018 and May 30th, 2018 from the Twitter filter stream API using Twarc (<a href="https://github.com/DocNow/twarc">https://github.com/DocNow/twarc</a>). The set of terms that were used for the search were: #repealthe8th, #together4yes, #8thref, #savethe8th, #hometovote, #togetherforyes, #repealedthe8th, #loveboth, #voteyes, #voteno, #lovebothvoteno, #repealtheeighth.</p> <p>Note that the terms changed during the course of data collection and that the searches were not exhaustive.</p> <p>The GET statuses/lookup method supports retrieving the complete tweet for a tweet id (known as hydrating). Twarc can also be used to hydrate tweets.</p> <p>Per Twitter&rsquo;s Developer Policy, tweet ids may be publicly shared for academic purposes; tweets may not.</p> <p>There are several practical reasons to leave the retweets, as it allows researchers to trace important tweets and their dissemination.&nbsp;</p> <p>However, for researchers that might be interested in NLP tasks for which retweets are not required, a set of 411,213 tweet ids without their retweets is also included in the zip file.</p> <p>Questions about this dataset can be sent to Emmet &Oacute; Briain: <a href="mailto:emmet@quiddity.ie">emmet@quiddity.ie</a> .</p> <p>(24-05-20)</p>