Documenting the Now
DocNow Tweet Catalog
Title:
UKLG Tweets
Repository:
Internet Archive
Repository URL:
https://archive.org/details/uklg-tweet-ids
Creator(s):
  • Ed Summers
Subjects:
  • Literature
  • Writers
  • Memorial
Dates:
  • 01/14/2018 - 01/24/2018
Number of Tweets:
251,287
Description:

Ursula K Le Guin died on January 24, 2018 and there was an outpouring of tweets that commemorated her life as a writer. This dataset contains tweet identifiers for 251,287 tweets that mentioned the phrase "Le Guin" between January 14 and January 24, 2018. They were collected with the twarc utility.