G20 dataset: tweets, queries and relevant phrases

Abstract

Multi-year dataset with tweets ids (49,030,053) related to different G20 editions and the posts from and to the main politicians from the participating countries of the G20 summit. We crawled tweets at three main times: late 2018 (November and December), early 2020 and early 2021 (February and March). Each year we filtered tweets that had any of the most frequently used hashtags related to the G20 summit. For instance, in 2018 we used: "#g20'", "#g20summit'' and "#g20argentina". Also, we included the official and personal user handles of all presidents or prime ministers (or the corresponding official channel for the presidency, e.g. "@WhiteHouse") from all countries participating in the G20 summits. We collected tweets posted by those user handles and tweets mentioning any of the monitored accounts. Every year the strategy for filtering stayed the same, except for the list of presidents and prime ministers, which was updated accordingly. Also, the list of hashtags was updated to reflect the hashtags of the corresponding year. The exact list of users and keywords used each year is provided as research data.