Download social media data:
- Social Media Data Catalog: Social media datasets from data.gov, the home of the US government's open data
- Dataverse: Harvard's research data repository software that includes social media datasets contributed by academic researchers
- Kaggle: Contains over 400,00 datasets
- Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection (SNAP): A general purpose network analysis and graph mining library that includes various datasets from multiple social media platforms
Apply to access social media data for academic research:
- Social Media Intelligence and Learning Environment (SMILE): Empowers researchers to search content from multiple social media platforms. Includes analytics tools such as named entity recognition, automated phrase mining, text classification, network analysis, natural language preprocessing, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling
- Social Media Archive (SOMAR) at ICPSR: A centralized and reliable repository for social media research data. Data is either public--available for immediate download-- and/or restricted--available within their secure data enclave after receiving approval following a submitted restricted data application
- Social Science One: Request for proposal to access the data of the demographics of people who viewed, shared, and interacted with web pages shared on Facebook
X (Twitter) datasets (note that these datasets contain only the Tweet IDs. Previously researchers could "hydrate" the Tweet IDs using the Hydrator app and connect them to their original tweet, but X revoked access to Hydrator):
Meta datasets:
| University Libraries