Readme for 40486 #SilenceSam and #SilentSam Tweets 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 dataset contains Twitter data collected from the @Move_Silent_Sam account, @dailytarheel account, and hashtags #silentsam and #silencesam following the protests and toppling of the Confederate Monument, known as Silent Sam, on August 20, 2018. 

The tweets were collected using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) python package that makes use of Twitter's API. The search function of the Twitter API retrieves tweets from the previous seven days. 

@Move_Silent_Sam tweets were searched and collected on August 24, August 31, September 7, September 14, and September 21.

@dailytarheel tweets were searched and collected on August 28 in an effort to capture live tweeting of statements made by individuals at the demonstrations on August 27. 

#silentsam and #silencesam tweets were searched and collected on August 24, August 31, September 14, September 21. The week preceding September 7 was missed due to human error. 

Due to the search method some duplication was found in the dataset. A deduplicated copy of the Tweet identifiers documents are provided as well as original containing duplicates. 

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

Tweet IDs file name: 
MoveSilentSamAugSept2018-ids-dedup.txt
MoveSilentSamAugSept2018-ids-raw.txt
SilentSamTagsAugSept2018-ids-dedup.txt
SilentSamTagsAugSept2018-ids-raw.txt
DailyTarHeel20180828-ids.txt


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