A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots(github.com)

28 points by IvanSologub 5 years ago | 23 comments

Only a fool would use twitter. It's a place where anything you say can and will be held against you in the court of public opinion FOREVER.

If you must use it, then read-only mode should be sufficient. Leave the contributions to marketers and narcissists chasing likes.

GreenHeuristics 5 years ago |

Did you do the same for this?

https://wtop.com/dc/2020/05/dc-protests-of-george-floyds-dea...

krageon 5 years ago | |

I'm trying to read your comment charitably but I just can't find a humanising reason to post this. Because it's kind of unfair to assume you have a poor reason to do so, perhaps it would help me and hopefully other readers if you explained your line of thought here. Why do you want to know this?

fabbari 5 years ago | |

  I am not going to pretend you are engaging in civilized discussion. You are comparing people protesting against a constant threat to their lives from law enforcement - ask any black parent about "the talk" - to people protesting losing an election fomented by lies.

  On one side you have a real issue impacting the life of millions of people daily, on the other you have an issue artificially created based on lies, falsehoods and misdirection.

  These are not even remotely similar events, not by any measure. The response to these events from law enforcement was not close, nor comparable.

  Stop this false equivalence.

brynjar 5 years ago | | |

Can I humbly make an observation?

I agree the two events are not equivalent. Nevertheless, I think the bar has to be set higher before deciding a person is not worth talking to.

"I am not going to pretend you are engaging in civilized discussion."

Are you sure you know this? I don't know who GreenHeuristics is, perhaps his comment is in good faith, perhaps not, I don't know. But his comment wasn't a mad rant, how ever much anyone may dislike it.

bbno4 5 years ago | |

What's stopping you from doing that? This is open source work, they are not being paid to do this so you should not expect everyone to do work for you, for free :)

bob33212 5 years ago | |

Did you feel the same way about the Summer riots as the Capitol riots?

hd4 5 years ago | |

That would have been racist

posedge 5 years ago |

Are the tweets filtered for the event in any way, or is it just a random collection from all of twitter on that day?

CodesInChaos 5 years ago | |

Looks like it's based on search queries:

pandemic 5847

lockdown 5847

testing 5847

vaccine 5847

covid 5843

stock market 5843

jobs 5843

president 5842

mask 5840

travel 5839

spread 5837

economy 5836

quarantine 5836

unemployment 3045

coronavirus 2822

death rates 495

jcims 5 years ago |

The only commonality I see beyond the timeframe is that nearly all of the tweets have the word 'death' in them. :/

twosdai 5 years ago |

https://github.com/twintproject/twint

This is a much more advanced OSINT tool which can provide you better information if you really want to search for tweets within a specific area, or around a specific timeframe.

Here is an example command which would give you any tweet containing the word trump within a 50Km radius of DC.

twint -g="38.8935755,-77.0846155,50km" -s "Trump"

easytiger 5 years ago |

Presumably against twitter's T&C?

ianbooker 5 years ago | |

Presumably. It would suffice to just report the tweet ids, then you can "rehydrate" these into full tweets using the API.

woliveirajr 5 years ago | | |

> Each row comes with only a fraction of a tweet's data. You can use the tweet IDs with this tool to get everything:

So, not the whole thing.

dsnr 5 years ago |

When state surveillance is not enough and “involved” citizens start to roll out their own. Don’t forget to “cancel” everyone on that list and keep the society divided for as long as possible.

luma 5 years ago | |

Freedom of speech != freedom from consequences of your speech.

It's not like somebody hacked someone's private messaging system. If you put the world on blast with your dumb ideas, I don't have any problem with others pointing it out.

dsnr 5 years ago | | |

Ok, just make sure you record anyone who says something that you do not agree with. You never know when you might need it.

wukerplank 5 years ago | |

> keep the society divided for as long as possible

There can't be unity with fascists. They don't respect the values and rules of a democracy.

jfengel 5 years ago | | |

It would have been interesting to be in the room where they decided that "unity" was going to be the word of the day. After four years (and much longer) of very explicit divisiveness, where the whole notion of "unity" would have been met with derision, the rapid turnaround is giving me whiplash.

I know it's probably not just one room where it happened, and in a lot of ways it's a pretty obvious strategy. Still, I just have to wonder if there was even a moment of self-reflection. "Do you think they'll be skeptical if our talking points are about unity in the immediate wake of accusing people of trying to steal an election, which we believed to the point of provoking violence? Nah."

celim307 5 years ago | |

Curious choice to focus blame on the people investigating and not the people making literal death threats...

I am not going to pretend you are engaging in civilized discussion. You are comparing people protesting against a constant threat to their lives from law enforcement - ask any black parent about "the talk" - to people protesting losing an election fomented by lies. On one side you have a real issue impacting the life of millions of people daily, on the other you have an issue artificially created based on lies, falsehoods and misdirection. These are not even remotely similar events, not by any measure. The response to these events from law enforcement was not close, nor comparable. Stop this false equivalence.