This project examines U.S. journalists' activity on Twitter in the months before and after Elon Musk bought the social media platform in October 2022.
Journalists Remain on Twitter, but Tweet Slightly Less
The Tow Center collected approximately 4,000 journalists' Twitter handles from both local and national U.S. publications such as the NYT, CNN, Fox News and Breitbart between June 1st 2022 and January 30th 2023. The newsroom_data/ folder contains CSV files with tweets for each publication. Twitter handles were obtained from each publication’s official Twitter page. For instance, journalists associated with Fox News can be found here and NYT journalists here. The dataset does not account for deleted tweets.
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