ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

Charlottesville Tweet IDs

LimitedgraphtextTwitter (X)CrisisExtremismHate speechIdentityPolitical communicationRace & ethnicitySocial movement

A twitter dataset of tweet IDs from the 2017 Charlottesville protests, collected by Littman via Social Feed Manager (GWU Libraries). Each record contains tweet IDs only — full content requires hydration. Focused crisis dataset from a pivotal far-right rally and counter-protest event. Suitable for crisis informatics, hate speech, political extremism, social media during unrest.

#Charlottesville#Social feed manager#Tweet ids#Unite the right

Cite this dataset at charlottesville-tweets.echo.directory

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Data availability: Tweet IDs — hydration required

  • Tweet IDs only — full content requires Twitter API hydration
  • Twitter Academic Research API (free tier) retired — hydration now requires paid access

Tweet IDs related to the 2017 Charlottesville protests and Unite the Right rally. Retweet and reply network available after hydration. Twitter/X API now requires paid access for hydration.

Charlottesville 2017
Event
August 2017
Month
Twitter API (paid)
Hydration

Record

Catalog key
charlottesville_tweets
Authors
Littman, Justin
Year
2018
DOI / arXiv
10.7910/DVN/DVLJTO
License
CC0 1.0 (CC0-1.0)
Nodes are
user
Edges are
retweet / mention / reply
Languages
en
Collected
2017-08 (2010s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DVLJTO unverified
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-16, 138.9 MB across 4 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@dataset{littman2018charlottesville,
  title     = {Charlottesville Tweet Ids},
  author    = {Littman, Justin},
  year      = {2018},
  publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
  doi       = {10.7910/DVN/DVLJTO}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Littman, J. (2018). Charlottesville Tweet IDs [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DVLJTO

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Littman, Justin. Charlottesville Tweet IDs. 2018, doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DVLJTO.

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