Twitter related information?

About a third (35%) of higher education professionals in the USA were Twitter users in 2010 Uptake can vary by discipline, with Twitter being among the most popular platforms in the bibliometric community. Internationally, Twitter is banned in some countries and can be second choice to other microblogging services, such as Sina Weibo in China.

Twitter has released examples in the past of accounts and content used by the Internet Research Agency, the Russian government-linked organization that used social media posts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. On Wednesday, Twitter released everything.

The social network made two sizable datasets available Wednesday—one regarding the IRA, and the other related to accounts that potentially originated in Iran and were engaging in coordinated behavior aimed at the upcoming midterm elections in the U.S. Those accounts were removed in August.

Twitter said the datasets include all public, nondeleted tweets and media, and deleted tweets, which are not included, make up less than 1 percent of the overall activity of the accounts that are included.

Twitter said identifying fields such as user ID and screen name were hashed for accounts with fewer than 5,000 followers in order to reduce the potential impact on authentic or compromised accounts, adding that those seeking access to the unhashed versions of the datasets can apply via the form at the bottom of this page.