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Twitter dataset, 2017

Information

Date
2017-09-29 to 2017-10-07
Description

This is comprised of all the Tweets captured and the images that were associated with the collected Tweets. The Tweets are expressed in JSON and have been separated into zip files representing 24-hour intervals.

Access to these data is restricted to UNLV faculty, staff, and students. These data are accessible online, at UNLV Lied Library, at: https://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1z31nv8w. Due to the size of the dataset, direct file transfer is also available at the UNLV Lied Library during Special Collections and Archives hours of operation. Visit the Special Collections and Archives Reading Room located on the third floor of the Lied Library to receive a direct transfer of files. For specific questions, please contact special.collections@unlv.edu.

Digital ID
523ffd2be6f0dfd1060c59eaf61de433
Permalink
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1z31nv8w
Details
Subject
Mass shootings
Nevada--Las Vegas
Social media
Web archives
Place
Site of the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival
Resource Type
Image
Text
Material Type
data (information)
Web archives
Source
Twitter datasets, 2017
Citation

523ffd2be6f0dfd1060c59eaf61de433. Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2017-2018. MS-00866. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. https://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1z31nv8w

Rights
By downloading these data you agree to Twitter's Terms of Service. This dataset is intended for academic purposes (non-commercial research) only. Sharing of these data with any individual or party outside of UNLV faculty, staff, and students is prohibited. Twitter policies do not allow publicly posting or sharing data retrieved from the Twitter API. However, they do allow the sharing of tweet ids, direct message ids, and/or user ids. Twitter Terms of service: <https://twitter.com/en/tos> This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.
Standardized Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Digital Provenance
Original archival records created digitally: Digital materials archived from websites
Extent
169,700,000,000 bytes
Geographic Coordinate
36.093, -115.17213
Language

English

Spanish

Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Format
application/zip
text/plain