The dataset contains the user and tweet IDs of a sample of 2,639 English-language tweets about the translation of Amanda Gorman's poem The Hill We Climb, from the period 1 March 2021 to 28 February 2022. It was collected via, and in accordance with, the (now defunct) Twitter academic API and by using the R package “rtweet” (Kearny 2019). The tweets were collected on 16 April 2022. An initial random sample of 3,000 tweets was collected. The tweets were collected by searching for the keyword 'Gorman' co-occurring with any word form of the lemma TRANSLATE (translation, translations, translator, translators, translate, translates, translated, translating). Subsequent to this, the tweets were manually verified and off-topic cases were removed, leaving a final sample of 2,639 tweets (approximately 71,000 word tokens). The dataset contains 1,133 original tweets and 1,506 retweets. A total of 100 of these are quote tweets.In accordance with F1000 guidelines (https://f1000research.com/about/policies) the full dataset with tweets and metadata is not shared; instead, a dataset with user and tweet IDs allows users to 'rehydrate' the tweets using the API.

Date Submitted: 2023-10-02