Mayweather Vs McGregor Tweets — mayweather_mcgregor

The raw data behind the story "The Mayweather-McGregor Fight As Told Through Emojis" https://fivethirtyeight.com/?post_type=fte_features&p=161615.

mayweather_mcgregor_tweets

Format

A data frame with 12,118 rows representing tweets and 7 variables:

created_at: Time and date at which the tweet associated with the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight was sent.
emojis: Whether or not emojis were used in the tweet about the fight.
id: A numerical identifier for each individual tweet about the fight.
link: The link to the tweet about the fight on Twitter.
retweeted: Whether or not the tweet about the fight was retweeted.
screen_name: The screen name under which the tweet about the fight was posted.
text: The text contained in the tweet about the fight.

Source

This data contains 12,118 tweets that contain one or more emojis and match one or more of the following hashtags: #MayMac, #MayweatherMcGregor, #MayweatherVMcGregor, #MayweatherVsMcGregor, #McGregor and #Mayweather. Data was collected on August 27, 2017 between 12:05 a.m. and 1:15 a.m. EDT using the Twitter streaming API. https://github.com/fivethirtyeightdata/data/tree/master/mayweather-mcgregor