Answered By: Bobray Bordelon Last Updated: Nov 13, 2025 Views: 446
Answered By: Bobray Bordelon
Last Updated: Nov 13, 2025 Views: 446
- SOMAR: Social Media Archive @ ICPSR. (largely restricted and unavailable to undergraduates) However the Meta Content Library and Content Library API is available to all researchers after being approved through a restricted process. Meta Content Library and Content Library API provide comprehensive access to the full public content archive from Facebook and Instagram.
- Voxgov provides access to real-time documents, publications, press releases, and social media posts from all branches, offices, agencies, and elected officials of the U.S. Federal Government. Extensive search and filtering options; most content is from 2000-present.
- Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection (SNAP) - The SNAP library is being actively developed since 2004 and is organically growing as a result of Stanford academics' research pursuits in analysis of large social and information networks.
- Social Sentiment Metrics for Equities - Twitter (Context Analytics). December 1, 2011+. A Daily snapshot of social sentiment data from Twitter for global equities. This data feed aggregates Tweets and makes a comparison to the security’s own baseline to deliver 15 sentiment and Tweet volume-based metrics. One does not get the actual tweets.
- Daily average online sentiment by county. Each observation represents the average sentiment of geo-located tweets for a county-day between 2014 and 2022.
- "Interesting Social Media Datasets" from KDnuggets (2014) contains links to additional resources.
- Tweet ID Catalog
- COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Latent Topics, Sentiments and Emotions Attributes
- See Libby Hemphill's presentation from ICPSR OR Conference 2017 on social media tools.
- See NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics as well as Documenting the Now for open source tools.
- Also see George Washington University's Where to get Twitter Data for Academic Research
- Election Integrity Datasets (USC) includes:
- A billion Telegram messages about the 2024 US presidential election
- A Public Dataset Tracking Social Media Discourse about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election on Twitter/X
- Unfiltered Conversations: A Dataset of 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Discourse on Truth Social
- 2024 Presidential Election TikTok Video IDs
- Twitter Data for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
- Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Datase
- GESIS. Digital Behavioral Data (Digital behavioral data, mostly from social media interactions in Germany)
- Commercial services that provide Twitter data for a fee include
- Social Blade tracks user statistics for YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and Twitter. One can also see followers of most popular accounts over time for many services including Facebook, TikTok. While some data is free, small fees are required to download data in detail.
- Important to note content moderation and legal policies over time from the Platform Governance Archive.
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