This Roseanne controversy is a pretty big dataset. I've gotten back as far as 6pm yesterday and see 210,000 tweets per hour at that point. Still hours away from the really good parts.
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It's a pretty concentrated event in terms of cause and effect and interesting to study how it propagated through social media. From the moment of her tweet to getting her show shit-canned, there's a lot of data here that could be used to understand how social media can affect ..
and amplify these type of situations. It's pretty trivial to gather the data, but since Twitter only let's you go ten days into the past for search, you have to grab it before it's gone.