Brexit Tweets from the morning of it's announcement

  • Chris Parker (Creator)

    Dataset

    Description

    To further our understanding of public reaction to political movement via social media, this dataset provides 17998 unfiltered tweets taken on the morning that Brexit was announced. This dataset contains metadata such as geolocation as an independent variable, to allow for rigorous qualitative investigation to be used.

    Additional tweets from trending topics were also taken at the same time provide context on trending themes at the time:

    Scotland
    Jeramy Corbyn
    Nichola Sturgeon
    David Cameron
    EURefResults
    Euromillions
    Borris
    Date made available23 Jun 2017
    PublisherUniversity of Manchester
    Date of data production24 Jun 2016
    Geographical coverageUnited Kingdom

    Keywords

    • Brexit
    • Twitter
    • Social Media

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