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Title:
Ferguson (August 8-10, 2014)
Repository:
Internet Archive
Repository URL:
https://archive.org/details/ferguson-201408
Creator(s):
  • Ed Summers
Subjects:
  • Blacklivesmatter
  • Activism
Dates:
  • 08/08/2014 - 08/10/2014
Number of Tweets:
32,056
Description:

This dataset contains 32,056 tweets that mention "ferguson" between August 8 and August 10, 2014. They were collected on May 7th, 2015 from the search form on Twitter's website. Some important side effects to be aware of is that the dataset does not include retweets and tweets that were deleted before May 7th, 2015.