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Surviving R Kelly

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Jan 18, 2019 version files 7.98 MB

Abstract

This tweet identifier dataset was collected from the Twitter streaming and search APIs to collect tweets containing the phrase "R Kelly" or the hashtag "#SurvivingRKelly" between December 25, 2018 and January 4, 2019. This partially covers the time period in which the 6 part Lifetime documentary Surviving R Kelly was released (January 3 to January 5). It includes 1,431,655. The documentary had an estimated 1.9 million viewers.