Documenting the Now
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Title:
Ireland 8th amendment referendum vote
Repository:
Harvard Dataverse
Repository URL:
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PYCLPE
Creator(s):
  • Justin Littman
Subjects:
  • Ireland
  • Abortion
  • Politics
Dates:
  • 04/13/2018 - 06/04/2018
Number of Tweets:
2,279,396
Description:

This dataset contains 2,279,396 tweets related to the referendum to repeal the 8th amendment to the Irish constitution on May 25, 2018. They were collected between April 13, 2018 and June 4, 2018 from the Twitter filter stream API. These hashtags were provided by Helena Byrne, British Library.