Dataset

Twitter data from millions of tweets! This is a download of Twitter data from March 2006 to November 2009. The data comes from analysis on the full set of tweets during that time period, which is 35 million users, over 500 million tweets, and more than 1 billion relationships between users.

This dataset maps Twitter screen names to a user’s corresponding Twitter API ID and Twitter Search ID. Infochimps uses a tool to “scrape” user profiles, extracting Twitter data. This data set maps Twitter screen names to a user’s corresponding API ID and Search ID.

There are 24,556,360 user records in this dataset.

A sample from the data set:

Where

• api_id: the Twitter API ID for the user
• screen_name: the Twitter user’s screen name
• search_id: the Twitter Search ID for the user

Use Cases For Twitter Census: Developer Tools – Mapping from Twitter User Search ID to Twitter API IDs

Use the data to create Twitter analysis across trending topics (trendingtopics.org), brands, industries, and pop culture to assess the sentiment or popularity around any area of interest. The data is useful for building social networking apps which integrate Twitter Search with the Twitter API.

If you make a visualization of this dataset, you may submit it to us by clicking on the “App Gallery” tab and following the instructions to “submit it now.”