#GifHistory

Jules, Bergis, University of California, Riverside, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8699-1316

bergis.jules@ucr.edu

Published Feb 12, 2018 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.6086/D1CM12

Cite this dataset

Jules, Bergis (2018). #GifHistory [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.6086/D1CM12

Abstract

This data set contains 31,929 tweets ids for tweets containing the hashtag #GifHistory. This hashtag was used by Twitter user @MatthewACherry on February 9th, 2018 to start a conversation about the history of popular gifs on Twitter. Here is a link to the original tweet using the hashtag https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/962011241815277568

Methods

The tweet ids in this dataset we're collected using the DocNow prototype Twitter data collection tool. http://app.docnow.io/

You can recreate the original tweets by using the DocNow Hydrator https://github.com/DocNow/hydrator