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Title:
Twitter Corpus of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement And Counter Protests: 2013 to 2020
Repository:
Zenodo
Repository URL:
https://zenodo.org/record/4056563
Creator(s):
  • Salvatore Giorgi
  • Sharath Chandra Guntuku
  • Muhammad Rahman
  • McKenzie Himelein-Wachowiak
  • Amy Kwarteng
  • Brenda Curtis
Subjects:
  • #BlackLivesMatter
  • #AllLivesMatter
  • #BlueLivesMatter
Dates:
  • 01/01/2013 - 06/30/2020
Number of Tweets:
41,801,153
Description:

This data set contains all currently available tweets from the beginning of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2013 to June 2020. All tweets contain the following keywords BlackLivesMatter, AllLivesMatter, and BlueLivesMatter, or some variation (e.g., #blacklivesmatter or black lives matter). The data set consists of 41.8 million tweets from 10 million users.