BRaS Blog (Oct 2022)

August: Brazilian presidential candidates on Twitter

  • Alessandra Maia Terra de Faria, Marcelo Castañeda de Araujo and Carlos Trucíos

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Daily tweets spanning from August 1st to August 31st were collected for each one of the three main candidates in the Brazilian presidential election. Tweets were collected from both candidates' timelines and Twitter users mentioning the candidates, totalling more than 26 million tweets, the largest volume of monthly data obtained since the beginning of the survey.

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