ICWSM CySoc 2025 – A Public Twitter/X Dataset on the 2024 U.S. Election

Our paper, “A Public Dataset Tracking Social Media Discourse about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election on Twitter/X”, was presented at the 6th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2025), co-located with ICWSM 2025.

Published: June 5, 2025
Co-authors: Ashwin Balasubramanian, Vito Zou, Hitesh Narayana, Christina You, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
Dataset Size: 46 million tweets

Abstract

We present a large-scale dataset of 46 million publicly available posts on X (formerly Twitter), collected from May to November 2024 using a custom scraper targeting political discourse related to the U.S. Presidential Election.
This resource supports the study of:

Public sentiment
Misinformation spread
Discourse themes and election-related narratives
We also include an exploratory analysis of dominant hashtags and emerging conversation trends.

Citation

@inproceedings{balasubramanian2025election,
  title={A Public Dataset Tracking Social Media Discourse about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election on Twitter/X},
  author={Balasubramanian, Ashwin and Zou, Vito and Narayana, Hitesh and You, Christina and Luceri, Luca and Ferrara, Emilio},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc) at ICWSM},
  year={2025},
  doi={10.36190/2025.15}
}

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