IMPORTANT (02-Apr-2024)

Kaggle has fixed the issue with gzip files and Version 510 should now reflect properly working files

IMPORTANT (28-Mar-2024)

Please use the version 508 of the dataset, as 509 is broken. See link below of the dataset that is properly working https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/bwandowando/ukraine-russian-crisis-twitter-dataset-1-2-m-rows/versions/508

Context

The context and history of the current ongoing conflict can be found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.

Announcement

[Jun 16] (🌇Sunset) Twitter has finally pulled the plug on all of my remaining TWITTER API accounts as part of their efforts for developers to migrate to the new API. The last tweets that I pulled was dated last Jun 14, and no more data from Jun 15 onwards. It was fun til it lasted and I hope that this dataset was able and will continue to help a lot. I'll just leave the dataset here for future download and reference. Thank you all!

[Apr 19] Two additional developer accounts have been permanently suspended, expect a lower throughtput in the next few weeks. I will pull data til they ban my last account.

[Apr 08] I woke up this morning and saw that Twitter has banned/ permanently suspended 4 of my developer accounts, I have around a few more but it is just a matter of time till all my accounts will most likely get banned as well. This was a fun project that I maintained for as long as I can. I will pull data til my last account gets banned.

[Feb 26] I've started to pull in RETWEETS again, so I am expecting a significant amount of throughput in tweets again on top of the dedicated processes that I have that gets NONRETWEETS. If you don't want RETWEETS, just filter them out.

[Feb 24] It's been a year since I started getting tweets of this conflict and had no idea that a year later this is still ongoing. Almost everyone assumed that Ukraine will crumble in a matter of days, but it is not the case. To those who have been using my dataset, i hope that I am helping all of you in one way or another. Ill do my best to maintain updating this dataset as long as I can.

[Feb 02] I seem to be getting less tweets as my crawlers are getting throttled, i used to get 2500 tweets per 15 mins but around 2-3 of my crawlers are getting throttling limit errors. There may be some kind of update that Twitter has done about rate limits or something similar. Will try to find ways to increase the throughput again.

[Jan 02] For all new datasets, it will now be prefixed by a year, so for Jan 01, 2023, it will be 20230101_XXXX.

[Dec 28] For those looking for a cleaned version of my dataset, with the retweets removed from before Aug 08, here is a dataset by @@vbmokin https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/vbmokin/russian-invasion-ukraine-without-retweets

[Nov 19] I noticed that one of my developer accounts, which ISNT TWEETING ANYTHING and just pulling data out of twitter has been permanently banned by Twitter.com, thus the decrease of unique tweets. I will try to come up with a solution to increase my throughput and signup for a new developer account.

[Oct 19] I just noticed that this dataset is finally "GOLD", after roughly seven months since I first uploaded my gzipped csv files.

[Oct 11] Sudden spike in number of tweets revolving around most recent development(s) about the Kerch Bridge explosion and the response from Russia.

[Aug 19- IMPORTANT] I raised the missing dataset issue to Kaggle team and they confirmed it was a bug brought by a ReactJs upgrade, the conversation and details can be seen here https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-feedback/345915 . It has been fixed already and I've reuploaded all the gzipped files that were lost PLUS the new files that were generated AFTER the issue was identified.

[Aug 17] Seems the latest version of my dataset lost around 100+ files, good thing this dataset is versioned so one can just go back to the previous version(s) and download them. Version 188 HAS ALL THE LOST FILES, I wont be reuploading all datasets as it will be tedious and I've deleted them already in my local and I only store the latest 2-3 days.

[Aug 10] 3/5 of my Python processes errored out and resulted to around 10-12 hours of NO data gathering for those processes thus the sharp decrease of tweets for Aug 09 dataset. I've applied an exception/ error checking to prevent this from happening.

[Aug 09] Significant drop in tweets extracted, but I am now getting ORIGINAL/ NON-RETWEETS.

[Aug 08] I've noticed that I had a spike of Tweets extracted, but they are literally thousands of retweets of a single original tweet. I also noticed that my crawlers seem to deviate because of this tactic being used by some Twitter users where they flood Twitter w...