The Interfaces Twitter Elections Dataset: Construction process and characteristics of big social data during the 2022 presidential elections in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: The main objective of this study is to describe the process of collecting data extracted from Twitter (X) during the Brazilian presidential elections in 2022, encompassing the post-election period and the event of the attack on the buildings of the executive, legislative, and judiciary branches in January 2023. The work of collecting data took one year. Additionally, the study provides an overview of the general characteristics of the dataset created from 282 million tweets, named "The Interfaces Twitter Elections Dataset" (ITED-Br), the third most extensive dataset of tweets with political purposes. The process of collecting and creating the database for this study went through three major stages, subdivided into several processes: (1) A preliminary analysis of the platform and its operat

SUBMITTER: Iasulaitis S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11790155 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature