Data from Tweet Acts

We used Twitter's streaming and search APIs to collect tweets that mentioned members of Congress and that contained any of our hashtags of interest between 12/22/11 and 10/29/12, 1/25/13 and 1/29/13, and again between 4/30/13 and 5/16/13. In all, we collected 76,454 tweets from 43,079 users directed at a total of 566 Twitter accounts owned by members of the 112th and/or 113th Congress. Of those tweets, 42,398 were traditional retweets (shared content preceded by “RT”) and were not included when coding. We excluded RTs because they are linguistic duplicates of the original tweet.

Hemphill, L., Roback, A. (2014) Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Baltimore, MD. doi: 10.1145/2531602.2531735