Twitter Dataset on the Russo-Ukrainian War
This provides a resource for studying topics like propaganda and botnets in the war, but it is incremental as it primarily offers a new dataset without major methodological advances.
The researchers tackled the problem of analyzing social media data during the Russo-Ukrainian War by creating a dataset of 57.3 million tweets from 7.7 million users, with initial volume and sentiment analysis.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, also known now as Russo-Ukrainian War. We have initiated an ongoing dataset acquisition from Twitter API. Until the day this paper was written the dataset has reached the amount of 57.3 million tweets, originating from 7.7 million users. We apply an initial volume and sentiment analysis, while the dataset can be used to further exploratory investigation towards topic analysis, hate speech, propaganda recognition, or even show potential malicious entities like botnets.