BRaS Blog (May 2023)

October 2022: Brazilian’s presidential candidates on Twitter

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

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We collected daily tweets spanning from October 3rd to October 29th of 2022 (the day after the second turn elections in Brazil) for each one of the candidates running in the Brazilian second turn presidential elections. Tweets were collected from both candidates' timelines and Twitter users mentioning the candidates, totaling more than 69 million tweets, the largest volume of monthly data obtained since the beginning of our survey. We extracted the data through a Twitter API used exclusively for academic purposes and analyzed using R software.

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