Twitter Samples These samples of Tweets (or 'status updates') were collected from the Twitter Streaming and REST APIs (see https://dev.twitter.com/overview/documentation, https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview). Each file consists of line-separated JSON-formatted tweets, i.e. one Tweet per line. For a detailed description of the JSON fields in a Tweet, see https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/tweets. Any use of this data is subject to the Twitter Developer Agreement and Developer Policy: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/terms/agreement-and-policy. #################################################### * tweets.20150430-223406.json: Collected from the public stream of the Streaming API using the 'statuses / filter' endpoint. The value of 'track' was set to the following keywords: "david cameron, miliband, milliband, sturgeon, clegg, farage, tory, tories, ukip, snp, libdem" #################################################### * positive_tweets.json * negative_tweets.json These were collected in July 2015 by searching against the following strings: positive ------- ':-)', ':)', ';)', ':o)', ':]', ':3', ':c)', ':>', '=]', '8)', '=)', ':}', ':^)', ':-D', ':D', '8-D', '8D', 'x-D', 'xD', 'X-D', 'XD', '=-D', '=D', '=-3', '=3', ':-))', ":'-)", ":')", ':*', ':^*', '>:P', ':-P', ':P', 'X-P', 'x-p', 'xp', 'XP', ':-p', ':p', '=p', ':-b', ':b', '>:)', '>;)', '>:-)', '<3' } negative ------ ':L', ':-/', '>:/', ':S', '>:[', ':@', ':-(', ':[', ':-||', '=L', ':<', ':-[', ':-<', '=\\', '=/', '>:(', ':(', '>.<', ":'-(", ":'(", ':\\', ':-c', ':c', ':{', '>:\\', ';('