Paper ID: 2204.08530

Twitter Dataset on the Russo-Ukrainian War

Alexander Shevtsov, Christos Tzagkarakis, Despoina Antonakaki, Polyvios Pratikakis, Sotiris Ioannidis

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, also known now as Russo-Ukrainian War. We have initiated an ongoing dataset acquisition from Twitter API. Until the day this paper was written the dataset has reached the amount of 57.3 million tweets, originating from 7.7 million users. We apply an initial volume and sentiment analysis, while the dataset can be used to further exploratory investigation towards topic analysis, hate speech, propaganda recognition, or even show potential malicious entities like botnets.

Submitted: Apr 7, 2022