LibGuides: Government Datasets, Statistical Data &amp; Census Information: Social Media Statistics/Datasets

Social Media datasets encompass a vast collection of information gathered from various social media platforms, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. These datasets compile data on user interactions, content preferences, engagement metrics, and demographic information. Researchers, marketers, businesses, and social scientists utilize Social Media datasets to analyze trends in online behavior, understand user sentiment, and identify influential topics or individuals. By examining these datasets, stakeholders gain insights into consumer preferences, market trends, and public opinion, which can inform marketing strategies, product development, and brand management. Additionally, Social Media datasets support social research, sentiment analysis, and studies on online communication patterns and network dynamics. Accessible and comprehensive Social Media datasets play a crucial role in understanding digital ecosystems, shaping online strategies, and leveraging the power of social media for various purposes, from business to academia to advocacy.

Here are a few articles and guidelines for deepening your understanding of the ethical considerations in social media research:

Association of Internet Researchers, “Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research”, 2012.
North Carolina State University Libraries, “Social Media Toolkit: Legal and Ethical Implications”, 2015.
Katrin Weller and Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, “A manifesto for data sharing in social media research”, Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science, 2016.

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DATA.Gov (Social Media) 68 datasets found for "Social Media"
DATA.World (Social Media) There are 62 social media datasets available on data.world.
Data Mine Infographics and stats on social media topics
Data Repository for NaN Group Public datasets and tools for processing data for researchers
Nielsen State of the Media Reports Reports on mobile and social media use.
Pew Internet & American Life Project Datasets
Social Computing Data Repository at Arizona State University Repository of datasets from social media sites included in this repository are BlogCatalog, Twitter, MyBlogLog, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, MySpace, LiveJournal, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Reddit, etc.
Social Feed Manager Social Feed Manager is open source software that harvests social media data and web resources from Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Sina Weibo. Find social media data such as Tweets from 60 Twitter accounts belonging to the President, Vice President, White House and administration officials, Cabinet members, political appointees members of Congress, official offices, and other related accounts, activists for the 2017 women’s march, news outlets, and more.
StatCounter Social Media Stats
Twitter - 2016 United States Presidential Election Tweet Ids This dataset contains the tweet ids of approximately 280 million tweets related to the 2016 United States presidential election. They were collected between July 13, 2016 and November 10, 2016 from the Twitter API
Twitter - DocNow Catalog Provides a listing of publicly available Twitter datasets.
Twitter - Historical PowerTrack (Fee based) An API that provides access to the entire historical archive of public Twitter data-- to use the API you must set up an account through a sales representative.
YouTube Statistics

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