Readme for 40486 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Confederate Monument Protests Collected Tweets, 2017-2018 Dataset:
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wilson Library collection guide for this data can be found at: http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/40486/

Copyright is retained by the authors of tweets in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. 

The dataset is provided 'as is' without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness. 

The dataset format is line-oriented JSON in utf8 encoding. The tweet identifiers are provided in text (.txt) file format. 


Dataset Overview :
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This folder contains combined tweet identifier text files for all tweet data collected between 2017 and May 2019. See the collection finding aid for more information on how tweets were collected and what hashtags are included. 

This folder contains combined tweet identifiertext files for all tweet data collected between 2017 and May 2019. See thecollection finding aid for more information on how tweets were collected andwhat hashtags are included. The data from individual text identifier listswere combined using the cat (“concatenate”) unix command.

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS:
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Due to Twitter Terms of Service the full JSON data collected is not publicly available. Files containing tweet identifiers (tweet ids) for all collected tweets are made available. You will need to "hydrated" the tweets prior to use by querying the Twitter API for the tweet content. Any tweets that have been deleted or made private since the original collection date will not be retrieved. Twarc can hydrate tweet ids. https://github.com/DocNow/twarc or https://github.com/DocNow/hydrator


If you have questions, contact wilsonlibrary@unc.edu for assistance.