Documenting the Now
DocNow Tweet Catalog
Title:
Tropical Storm Imelda Twitter Dataset
Repository:
UNT Digital Library
Repository URL:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1706012/
Creator(s):
  • Mark Phillips
Subjects:
  • #tropicalstormImelda
  • #imelda
  • tropical storms
Dates:
  • 09/10/2019 - 09/21/2019
Number of Tweets:
76,420
Description:

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Tropical Storm Imelda and the subsequent flooding in the south Texas region. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/DocNow/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 76,420 Tweets and 4,429 media files make up the combined dataset.