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Twitter Trends

SND-ID: EXT 0271

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Peter Dahlgren - University of Gothenburg, JMG orcid

Description

Collection of all trends on Twitter from three geographical positions (Sweden, Gothenburg, and Stockholm). Collected automatically every hour, at all hours.
Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism Media and Communication
Protection and ethical review
Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration
Collection of all trends on Twitter from three geographical positions (Sweden, Gothenburg, and Stockholm). Collected automatically every hour, at all hours.

Time period(s) investigated

2014-12-18 – ongoing

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Publications

Access to data via

Dataset
Twitter Trends

Description

Collection of all trends on Twitter from three geographical areas (Sweden, Gothenburg, and Stockholm). These trends are aggregated by Twitter automatically and presented for all users in the specific geographical area.

The trends are collected automatically every hour, at all hours. Custom software has been written for the task.

Data format / data structure

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Peter Dahlgren - University of Gothenburg, JMG orcid

Time period(s) investigated

2014-12-18 – ongoing

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Aggregation
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2014-12-18
  • Source of the data: Communications: Public

Variables

4

Published: 2017-03-24
Last updated: 2021-11-11