DOI: 10.21227/ywaq-7475
title: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tweets Dataset

description: This dataset includes CSV files that contain IDs and sentiment scores of the tweets related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tweets have been collected by an on-going project deployed at https://live.rlamsal.com.np. The model monitors the real-time Twitter feed for coronavirus-related tweets using 54 different keywords that are commonly used while referencing the pandemic. This dataset has been wholly re-designed on March 20, 2020, to comply with the content redistribution policy set by Twitter. Below is the quick overview of this dataset.— Number of tweets : 382,441,270 tweets— Coverage : Global— Language : English (EN)— Keywords status (last updated on July 22, 2020) : (i) corona, coronavirus, covid, ncov, ncov2019, pandemic, quarantine, hand sanitizer, lockdown, social distancing, ppe, n95, covidiots, herd immunity, pneumonia, chinese virus, wuhan virus, kung flu, (ii) variants of covid(19,-19,_19), sars cov 2, 2019 ncov, flatten(ing) the curve, work(ing) from home, and (iii) the respective hashtags of all the keywords mentioned— Dataset updates : Everyday— Geo-tagged tweets : Coronavirus (COVID-19) Geo-tagged Tweets Dataset— Usage policy : As per Twitter's Developer PolicyDataset Files (the local time mentioned below is GMT+5:45)corona_tweets_01.csv + corona_tweets_02.csv + corona_tweets_03.csv: 2,475,980 tweets (March 20, 2020 01:37 AM - March 21, 2020 09:25 AM)corona_tweets_04.csv: 1,233,340 tweets (March 21, 2020 09:27 AM - March 22, 2020 07:46 AM)corona_tweets_05.csv: 1,782,157 tweets (March 22, 2020 07:50 AM - March 23, 2020 09:08 AM)corona_tweets_06.csv: 1,771,295 tweets (March 23, 2020 09:11 AM - March 24, 2020 11:35 AM)corona_tweets_07.csv: 1,479,651 tweets (March 24, 2020 11:42 AM - March 25, 2020 11:43 AM)corona_tweets_08.csv: 1,272,592 tweets (March 25, 2020 11:47 AM - March 26, 2020 12:46 PM)corona_tweets_09.csv: 1,091,429 tweets (March 26, 2020 12:51 PM - March 27, 2020 11:53 AM)corona_tweets_10.csv: 1,172,013 tweets (March 27, 2020 11:56 AM - March 28, 2020 01:59 PM)corona_tweets_11.csv: 1,141,210 tweets (March 28, 2020 02:03 PM - March 29, 2020 04:01 PM)&gt; March 29, 2020 04:02 PM - March 30, 2020 02:00 PM -- Some technical fault has occurred. Preventive measures have been taken. Tweets for this session won't be available.corona_tweets_12.csv: 793,417 tweets (March 30, 2020 02:01 PM - March 31, 2020 10:16 AM)corona_tweets_13.csv: 1,029,294 tweets (March 31, 2020 10:20 AM - April 01, 2020 10:59 AM)corona_tweets_14.csv: 920,076 tweets (April 01, 2020 11:02 AM - April 02, 2020 12:19 PM)corona_tweets_15.csv: 826,271 tweets (April 02, 2020 12:21 PM - April 03, 2020 02:38 PM)corona_tweets_16.csv: 612,512 tweets (April 03, 2020 02:40 PM - April 04, 2020 11:54 AM)corona_tweets_17.csv: 685,560 tweets (April 04, 2020 11:56 AM - April 05, 2020 12:54 PM)corona_tweets_18.csv: 717,301 tweets (April 05, 2020 12:56 PM - April 06, 2020 10:57 AM)corona_tweets_19.csv: 722,921 tweets (April 06, 2020 10:58 AM - April 07, 2020 12:28 PM)corona_tweets_20.csv: 554,012 tweets (April 07, 2020 12:29 PM - April 08, 2020 12:34 PM)corona_tweets_21.csv: 589,679 tweets (April 08, 2020 12:37 PM - April 09, 2020 12:18 PM)corona_tweets_22.csv: 517,718 tweets (April 09, 2020 12:20 PM - April 10, 2020 09:20 AM)corona_tweets_23.csv: 601,199 tweets (April 10, 2020 09:22 AM - April 11, 2020 10:22 AM)corona_tweets_24.csv: 497,655 tweets (April 11, 2020 10:24 AM - April 12, 2020 10:53 AM)corona_tweets_25.csv: 477,182 tweets (April 12, 2020 10:57 AM - April 13, 2020 11:43 AM)corona_tweets_26.csv: 288,277 tweets (April 13, 2020 11:46 AM - April 14, 2020 12:49 AM)corona_tweets_27.csv: 515,739 tweets (April 14, 2020 11:09 AM - April 15, 2020 12:38 PM)corona_tweets_28.csv: 427,088 tweets (April 15, 2020 12:40 PM - April 16, 2020 10:03 AM)corona_tweets_29.csv: 433,368 tweets (April 16, 2020 10:04 AM - April 17, 2020 10:38 AM)corona_tweets_30.csv: 392,847 tweets (April 17, 2020 10:40 AM - April 18, 2020 10:17 AM)&gt; With the addition of some more coronavirus specific keywords, the number of tweets captured day has increased significantly, therefore, the CSV files hereafter will be zipped. Lets save some bandwidth.corona_tweets_31.csv: 2,671,818 tweets (April 18, 2020 10:19 AM - April 19, 2020 09:34 AM)corona_tweets_32.csv: 2,393,006 tweets (April 19, 2020 09:43 AM - April 20, 2020 10:45 AM)corona_tweets_33.csv: 2,227,579 tweets (April 20, 2020 10:56 AM - April 21, 2020 10:47 AM)corona_tweets_34.csv: 2,211,689 tweets (April 21, 2020 10:54 AM - April 22, 2020 10:33 AM)corona_tweets_35.csv: 2,265,189 tweets (April 22, 2020 10:45 AM - April 23, 2020 10:49 AM)corona_tweets_36.csv: 2,201,138 tweets (April 23, 2020 11:08 AM - April 24, 2020 10:39 AM)corona_tweets_37.csv: 2,338,713 tweets (April 24, 2020 10:51 AM - April 25, 2020 11:50 AM)corona_tweets_38.csv: 1,981,835 tweets (April 25, 2020 12:20 PM - April 26, 2020 09:13 AM)corona_tweets_39.csv: 2,348,827 tweets (April 26, 2020 09:16 AM - April 27, 2020 10:21 AM)corona_tweets_40.csv: 2,212,216 tweets (April 27, 2020 10:33 AM - April 28, 2020 10:09 AM)corona_tweets_41.csv: 2,118,853 tweets (April 28, 2020 10:20 AM - April 29, 2020 08:48 AM)corona_tweets_42.csv: 2,390,703 tweets (April 29, 2020 09:09 AM - April 30, 2020 10:33 AM)corona_tweets_43.csv: 2,184,439 tweets (April 30, 2020 10:53 AM - May 01, 2020 10:18 AM)corona_tweets_44.csv: 2,223,013 tweets (May 01, 2020 10:23 AM - May 02, 2020 09:54 AM)corona_tweets_45.csv: 2,216,553 tweets (May 02, 2020 10:18 AM - May 03, 2020 09:57 AM)corona_tweets_46.csv: 2,266,373 tweets (May 03, 2020 10:09 AM - May 04, 2020 10:17 AM)corona_tweets_47.csv: 2,227,489 tweets (May 04, 2020 10:32 AM - May 05, 2020 10:17 AM)corona_tweets_48.csv: 2,218,774 tweets (May 05, 2020 10:38 AM - May 06, 2020 10:26 AM)corona_tweets_49.csv: 2,164,251 tweets (May 06, 2020 10:35 AM - May 07, 2020 09:33 AM)corona_tweets_50.csv: 2,203,686 tweets (May 07, 2020 09:55 AM - May 08, 2020 09:35 AM)corona_tweets_51.csv: 2,250,019 tweets (May 08, 2020 09:39 AM - May 09, 2020 09:49 AM)corona_tweets_52.csv: 2,273,705 tweets (May 09, 2020 09:55 AM - May 10, 2020 10:11 AM)corona_tweets_53.csv: 2,208,264 tweets (May 10, 2020 10:23 AM - May 11, 2020 09:57 AM)corona_tweets_54.csv: 2,216,845 tweets (May 11, 2020 10:08 AM - May 12, 2020 09:52 AM)corona_tweets_55.csv: 2,264,472 tweets (May 12, 2020 09:59 AM - May 13, 2020 10:14 AM)corona_tweets_56.csv: 2,339,709 tweets (May 13, 2020 10:24 AM - May 14, 2020 11:21 AM)corona_tweets_57.csv: 2,096,878 tweets (May 14, 2020 11:38 AM - May 15, 2020 09:58 AM)corona_tweets_58.csv: 2,214,205 tweets (May 15, 2020 10:13 AM - May 16, 2020 09:43 AM)&gt; The server and the databases have been optimized; therefore, there is a significant rise in the number of tweets captured per day.corona_tweets_59.csv: 3,389,090 tweets (May 16, 2020 09:58 AM - May 17, 2020 10:34 AM)corona_tweets_60.csv: 3,530,933 tweets (May 17, 2020 10:36 AM - May 18, 2020 10:07 AM)corona_tweets_61.csv: 3,899,631 tweets (May 18, 2020 10:08 AM - May 19, 2020 10:07 AM)corona_tweets_62.csv: 3,767,009 tweets (May 19, 2020 10:08 AM - May 20, 2020 10:06 AM)corona_tweets_63.csv: 3,790,455 tweets (May 20, 2020 10:06 AM - May 21, 2020 10:15 AM)corona_tweets_64.csv: 3,582,020 tweets (May 21, 2020 10:16 AM - May 22, 2020 10:13 AM)corona_tweets_65.csv: 3,461,470 tweets (May 22, 2020 10:14 AM - May 23, 2020 10:08 AM)corona_tweets_66.csv: 3,477,564 tweets (May 23, 2020 10:08 AM - May 24, 2020 10:02 AM)corona_tweets_67.csv: 3,656,446 tweets (May 24, 2020 10:02 AM - May 25, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_68.csv: 3,474,952 tweets (May 25, 2020 10:11 AM - May 26, 2020 10:22 AM)corona_tweets_69.csv: 3,422,960 tweets (May 26, 2020 10:22 AM - May 27, 2020 10:16 AM)corona_tweets_70.csv: 3,480,999 tweets (May 27, 2020 10:17 AM - May 28, 2020 10:35 AM)corona_tweets_71.csv: 3,446,008 tweets (May 28, 2020 10:36 AM - May 29, 2020 10:07 AM)corona_tweets_72.csv: 3,492,841 tweets (May 29, 2020 10:07 AM - May 30, 2020 10:14 AM)corona_tweets_73.csv: 3,098,817 tweets (May 30, 2020 10:15 AM - May 31, 2020 10:13 AM)corona_tweets_74.csv: 3,234,848 tweets (May 31, 2020 10:13 AM - June 01, 2020 10:14 AM)corona_tweets_75.csv: 3,206,132 tweets (June 01, 2020 10:15 AM - June 02, 2020 10:07 AM)corona_tweets_76.csv: 3,206,417 tweets (June 02, 2020 10:08 AM - June 03, 2020 10:26 AM)corona_tweets_77.csv: 3,256,225 tweets (June 03, 2020 10:27 AM - June 04, 2020 10:23 AM)corona_tweets_78.csv: 2,205,123 tweets (June 04, 2020 10:26 AM - June 05, 2020 10:03 AM) (tweet IDs were extracted from the backup server for this session)corona_tweets_79.csv: 3,381,184 tweets (June 05, 2020 10:11 AM - June 06, 2020 10:16 AM)corona_tweets_80.csv: 3,194,500 tweets (June 06, 2020 10:17 AM - June 07, 2020 10:24 AM)corona_tweets_81.csv: 2,768,780 tweets (June 07, 2020 10:25 AM - June 08, 2020 10:13 AM)corona_tweets_82.csv: 3,032,227 tweets (June 08, 2020 10:13 AM - June 09, 2020 10:12 AM)corona_tweets_83.csv: 2,984,970 tweets (June 09, 2020 10:12 AM - June 10, 2020 10:13 AM)corona_tweets_84.csv: 3,068,002 tweets (June 10, 2020 10:14 AM - June 11, 2020 10:11 AM)corona_tweets_85.csv: 3,261,215 tweets (June 11, 2020 10:12 AM - June 12, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_86.csv: 3,378,901 tweets (June 12, 2020 10:11 AM - June 13, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_87.csv: 3,011,103 tweets (June 13, 2020 10:11 AM - June 14, 2020 10:08 AM)corona_tweets_88.csv: 3,154,328 tweets (June 14, 2020 10:09 AM - June 15, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_89.csv: 3,837,552 tweets (June 15, 2020 10:10 AM - June 16, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_90.csv: 3,889,262 tweets (June 16, 2020 10:11 AM - June 17, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_91.csv: 3,688,348 tweets (June 17, 2020 10:10 AM - June 18, 2020 10:09 AM)corona_tweets_92.csv: 3,673,328 tweets (June 18, 2020 10:10 AM - June 19, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_93.csv: 3,634,172 tweets (June 19, 2020 10:10 AM - June 20, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_94.csv: 3,610,992 tweets (June 20, 2020 10:10 AM - June 21, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_95.csv: 3,352,643 tweets (June 21, 2020 10:10 AM - June 22, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_96.csv: 3,730,105 tweets (June 22, 2020 10:10 AM - June 23, 2020 10:09 AM)corona_tweets_97.csv: 3,936,238 tweets (June 23, 2020 10:10 AM - June 24, 2020 10:09 AM)corona_tweets_98.csv: 3,858,387 tweets (June 24, 2020 10:10 AM - June 25, 2020 10:09 AM)corona_tweets_99.csv: 3,883,506 tweets (June 25, 2020 10:10 AM - June 26, 2020 10:09 AM)corona_tweets_100.csv: 3,941,476 tweets (June 26, 2020 10:09 AM - June 27, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_101.csv: 3,816,987 tweets (June 27, 2020 10:11 AM - June 28, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_102.csv: 3,743,358 tweets (June 28, 2020 10:10 AM - June 29, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_103.csv: 3,880,998 tweets (June 29, 2020 10:10 AM - June 30, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_104.csv: 3,926,862 tweets (June 30, 2020 10:10 AM - July 01, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_105.csv: 4,365,171 tweets (July 01, 2020 10:11 AM - July 02, 2020 12:28 PM)corona_tweets_106.csv: 3,563,659 tweets (July 02, 2020 12:29 PM - July 03, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_107.csv: 3,446,100 tweets (July 03, 2020 10:10 AM - July 04, 2020 07:00 AM)corona_tweets_108.csv: 4,076,176 tweets (July 04, 2020 07:01 AM - July 05, 2020 09:16 AM)corona_tweets_109.csv: 3,827,904 tweets (July 05, 2020 09:17 AM - July 06, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_110.csv: 3,991,881 tweets (July 06, 2020 10:10 AM - July 07, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_111.csv: 4,104,245 tweets (July 07, 2020 10:11 AM - July 08, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_112.csv: 4,032,945 tweets (July 08, 2020 10:10 AM - July 09, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_113.csv: 3,912,560 tweets (July 09, 2020 10:10 AM - July 10, 2020 10:12 AM)corona_tweets_114.csv: 4,024,227 tweets (July 10, 2020 10:12 AM - July 11, 2020 10:20 AM)corona_tweets_115.csv: 3,746,316 tweets (July 11, 2020 10:20 AM - July 12, 2020 10:09 AM)corona_tweets_116.csv: 3,902,393 tweets (July 12, 2020 10:10 AM - July 13, 2020 10:09 AM)corona_tweets_117.csv: 4,045,441 tweets (July 13, 2020 10:10 AM - July 14, 2020 10:09 AM)corona_tweets_118.csv: 4,130,726 tweets (July 14, 2020 10:10 AM - July 15, 2020 10:25 AM)corona_tweets_119.csv: 4,106,648 tweets (July 15, 2020 10:26 AM - July 16, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_120.csv: 4,083,573 tweets (July 16, 2020 10:11 AM - July 17, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_121.csv: 4,014,323 tweets (July 17, 2020 10:10 AM - July 18, 2020 10:25 AM)corona_tweets_122.csv: 3,639,620 tweets (July 18, 2020 10:25 AM - July 19, 2020 10:30 AM)corona_tweets_123.csv: 3,600,404 tweets (July 19, 2020 10:30 AM - July 20, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_124.csv: 3,777,908 tweets (July 20, 2020 10:11 AM - July 21, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_125.csv: 3,771,150 tweets (July 21, 2020 10:11 AM - July 22, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_126.csv: 3,691,852 tweets (July 22, 2020 10:10 AM - July 23, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_127.csv: 3,661,885 tweets (July 23, 2020 10:10 AM - July 24, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_128.csv: 3,621,819 tweets (July 24, 2020 10:10 AM - July 25, 2020 10:20 AM)corona_tweets_129.csv: 3,512,553 tweets (July 25, 2020 10:20 AM - July 26, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_130.csv: 3,399,349 tweets (July 26, 2020 10:11 AM - July 27, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_131.csv: 3,889,978 tweets (July 27, 2020 10:10 AM - July 28, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_132.csv: 4,167,168 tweets (July 28, 2020 10:10 AM - July 29, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_133.csv: 4,007,131 tweets (July 29, 2020 10:10 AM - July 30, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_134.csv: 3,968,762 tweets (July 30, 2020 10:10 AM - July 31, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_135.csv: 3,867,434 tweets (July 31, 2020 10:10 AM - August 01, 2020 10:12 AM)corona_tweets_136.csv: 3,533,863 tweets (August 01, 2020 10:12 AM - August 02, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_137.csv: 3,748,433 tweets (August 02, 2020 10:10 AM - August 03, 2020 10:10 AM)corona_tweets_138.csv: 3,810,246 tweets (August 03, 2020 10:10 AM - August 04, 2020 10:12 AM)corona_tweets_139.csv: 3,726,039 tweets (August 04, 2020 10:12 AM - August 05, 2020 10:10 AM)Why are only tweet IDs being shared?Twitter's content redistribution policy restricts the sharing of tweet information other than tweet IDs and/or user IDs. Twitter wants researchers always to pull fresh data. It is because a user might delete a tweet or make their profile protected. If the same tweet has already been pulled and shared on a public domain, it might make the user/community vulnerable to many inferences coming out of the shared data which currently does not exist or is private.Do you have tweets collected before March 20, 2020?Unfortunately, I had to unpublish more than 20 million tweets collected between Jan 27, 2020, and March 20, 2020, because the collection did not have tweet IDs obtained. "Why?" you might ask. Initially, the primary objective of the deployed model was not just to collect the tweets; it was more like an optimization project aiming to study how much information, received in a near-real-time scenario, can be processed with minimal computing resources at hand. However, when the COVID-19 outbreak started becoming a global emergency, I decided to release the collected tweets rather than just keeping them with me. But, the collection did not have tweet IDs. Which is why a fresh collection was started after March 20, 2020.