DOI: 10.21227/c276-4d87
title: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tweets Dataset

description: This dataset includes CSV files that contain tweet IDs. The tweets have been collected by the model deployed here at https://live.rlamsal.com.np. The model monitors the real-time Twitter feed for coronavirus-related tweets, using filters: language “en”, and keywords “corona”, "coronavirus", "covid", "pandemic" along with different possible variants of "sarscov2", "nCov", "covid-19", "ncov2019", "2019ncov" and their hashtags. As per Twitter's content redistribution policy, it is not possible for me to provide information other than the tweet IDs. This dataset has been completely re-designed on March 20, 2020, to comply with the content redistribution policy set by Twitter.Do you have tweets collected before March 20, 2020? Unfortunately, I had to unpublished more than 20 million tweets collected between Jan 27, 2020, and March 20, 2020, because the collection did not have tweet IDs obtained. You might ask why. Initially, the purpose of the deployed model was not 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 China observed the COVID-19 outbreak, I decided to release the collected tweets rather than just keeping them with me. However, the collection did not have tweet IDs. Which is why a fresh collection was started after March 20, 2020. ----------------------------------------------------------------------Tweets count: 159,525,064 --- Global Tweets (EN) ----------------------------------------------------------------------Coronavirus (COVID-19) Geo-tagged Tweets Dataset: http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/fpsb-jz61----------------------------------------------------------------------Why are only tweet IDs being shared? It is Twitter's content redistribution policy that restricts the sharing of tweet information other than tweet IDs and/or user IDs. Twitter wants researchers to always pull fresh data using their API. Why? Here's my opinion. Maybe, some user might want to delete a particular tweet after a couple of minute(s)/hour(s)/day(s), and if the same tweet has already been pulled and is shared on a public domain, then it might make the user/community vulnerable to many inferences coming out of the shared data.Note: This dataset should be solely used for non-commercial research purposes (ignore every other LICENSE category given on this page). A new list of tweet IDs will be added to this dataset every day. Bookmark this page for further updates.(Tweets collected in UTC; Local time mentioned below: GMT+5:45):corona_tweets_01.csv: 831,327 tweets (March 20, 2020 01:37 AM - March 20, 2020 10:28 AM)corona_tweets_02.csv: 870,924 tweets (March 20, 2020 10:31 AM - March 20, 2020 09:43 PM)corona_tweets_03.csv: 773,729 tweets (March 20, 2020 09:49 PM - 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)[March 29, 2020 04:05 PM - March 30, 2020 02:00 PM -- Some unavoidable circumstances. Preventive measures have been taken. Tweets for this period 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)[Additional keywords: "coronavirus", "covid", "covid19", "pandemic" and different possible variants of "sarscov2", "nCov", "covid-19", "ncov2019", "2019ncov". With the addition of these keywords, the tweets/day 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)[The server has been optimized well to handle the enormous traffic coming in from Twitter's Streaming API and to get the computations done efficiently; 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) [extracted from the backup server; hence the decrease in the number of tweets for this period]corona_tweets_79.csv: 3,381,184 tweets (June 05, 2020 10:11 AM - June 06, 2020 10:16 AM)