Documenting the Now
DocNow Tweet Catalog
Title:
Charlottesville KKK Tweets
Repository:
University of Virginia Dataverse
Repository URL:
https://dataverse.lib.virginia.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.18130/V3/MSCNLT
Creator(s):
  • Jeremy Boggs
Subjects:
  • Charlottesville
  • Race
  • Politics
  • Activism
Dates:
  • 06/28/2017 - 07/11/2017
Number of Tweets:
39,264
Description:

39,264 IDs for tweets related to the Charlottesville KKK rally on July 8, 2017. These tweet IDs matched a search for 'Charlottesville KKK OR #charlottesvilleKKK OR #blocKKK or #blocKKKparty'. These tweet IDs were collected with the twarc command line tool from Documenting the Now. Using twarc's hydrate command, researchers can retrieve the full content of those tweets—with additional metadata provided by Twitter's API—provided the tweets still exist.