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. 2020 Oct 15;33:106401. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106401
Subject Social Science, Health Informatics, Computer Science
Specific subject area Twitter stance detection, Sentiment analysis,
Polarization among in audiences
Type of data Text (CSV-formatted)
How data were acquired Twitter API
Data format Raw, Filtered
Parameters for data collection Keyword query: Coronavirus; Corona; COVID-19; Covid19;
Sars-cov-2; COVD; Pandemic (case insensitive)
Description of data collection We collected Twitter data for April 2020 with the specified
keyword queries. We considered only root tweets (excluding retweets).
Data source location http://www.Twitter.com
Data accessibility https://doi.org/10.17632/38nyzyt9bz.1
We adhere to Twitter’s terms and conditions by not providing the tweet
JSON, but sharing the stance labels with the tweet IDs, so that the tweets
can be rehydrated from the Twitter API.