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Title:
Hurricane Florence Twitter Dataset
Repository:
University of North Texas
Repository URL:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1259406/
Creator(s):
  • Mark Phillips
Subjects:
  • Natural Disasters
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
Dates:
  • 09/05/2018 - 10/03/2018
Number of Tweets:
4,971,575
Description:

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Hurricane Florence and the subsequent flooding along the Carolina coastal region. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 4,971,575 Tweets and 347,205 media files make up the combined dataset. See included README.txt for additional information.