115th U.S. Congress Tweet IDs
A twitter dataset of 2,041,399 tweet IDs from all members of the 115th U.S. Congress, collected by Littman via Social Feed Manager (GWU Libraries). Each record contains tweet IDs only — full content requires hydration. Complete tweet archive from all 115th Congress members enabling legislator communication and retweet network analysis. Suitable for political discourse, legislator communication patterns, congressional social media behavior.
Cite this dataset at
congress-tweets-115.echo.directory
Analytics
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
Contains 2,041,399 tweet IDs from all members of the 115th U.S. Congress (January 2017 – January 2019). After hydration, retweet and reply relationships between legislators form a directed social graph. Twitter/X API now requires paid access for hydration.
Record
- Catalog key
congress_tweets_115- Authors
- Littman, Justin
- Year
- 2017
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.7910/DVN/UIVHQR
- License
- CC0 1.0 (CC0-1.0)
- Records
- 2,041,399
- Text corpus
- tweet text
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2017-01-27 to 2019-01-02 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- United States · North America (inferred: named in the description)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/UIVHQR unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-21, 37.4 MB across 6 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
115th U.S. Congress Tweet Ids
Justin Littman
2017
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
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{littman2017congress,
title = {115th U.S. Congress Tweet Ids},
author = {Littman, Justin},
year = {2017},
publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
doi = {10.7910/DVN/UIVHQR}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Littman, J. (2017). 115th U.S. Congress Tweet IDs [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UIVHQR
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Littman, Justin. 115th U.S. Congress Tweet IDs. 2017, doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UIVHQR.