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Currently ingesting 5,000 tweets per minute (7,200,000 per day. I'll let this run for four weeks to collect ~ 200,000,000 tweets that are politically based. Then we'll see just how many bots are messing up Twitter. #datascience #bigdata #datasets

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Can you estimate the size of the dataset? Is it something you could make publicly available? Host it on

for example? :)

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I can make it available for "academic use" so just say it's for academic study. Once it is complete, I'll make an announcement with a link to the data. Also, if you know of a source where I can get a list of all Twitter accounts for all senators, reps and governors, that ...