#onpoli Tweet Volume

Lately I’ve been making use of my Twitter Academic Research Access while it still exists by grabbing #onpoli tweets. It took two monthly cycles with the 10,000,000 tweet cap per month. The dataset I have now runs from the very first tweet to use the hashtag on July 14, 2009 through December 31, 2022. Overall, there are 16,458,701 tweets.

I’m not exactly sure what questions I’m going to ask the dataset as of now. But, I wanted to get a sense of what the historical volume looked like over time, so I threw together a bar chart using pandas and Altair. Below is what the distribution of the 16,458,701 tweets look like by month. Each election cycle is the pink coloured bars.

#onpoli tweet volume July 14, 2009 - December 31, 2022
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Nick Ruest
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