Congress Tweets (2017-2023)
A Twitter dataset of 5,072,124 tweets from 1,835 congressional accounts, collected by Alex Litel via Twitter API (2017-2023). Each record contains tweet text, screen name, user ID, timestamp, retweet count, favorite count, source, retweet status. A daily collection of tweets from U.S. Congress members, committees, caucuses and party accounts, one JSON file per day; 11 days have no file in the source repository (for example 2022-01-15, 2022-03-17 and 2022-10-24 to 2022-10-31). metadata/historical-users-filtered.json, from the collection's companion repository, maps each account to its member or office, chamber, party and type. Suitable for political communication, sentiment analysis, election studies, congressional behavior, social media analysis.
Cite this dataset at
congress-tweets.echo.directory
Analytics
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Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 5.1M records; topic model from 20K.
Record
- Catalog key
congress-tweets- Authors
- Litel, Alex
- Year
- 2017
- Source paper
- congresstweets: Datasets of the daily Twitter output of Congress
- License
- MIT (repository); tweet content subject to X's terms (MIT)
- Records
- 5,072,124
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2017-2023 (2010s, 2020s)
- Region
- United States · North America (inferred: named in the description)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://github.com/alexlitel/congresstweets link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-21, 2.5 GB across 2203 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{litel_congresstweets,
author = {Litel, Alex},
title = {congresstweets: Datasets of the daily Twitter output of Congress},
year = {2017},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/alexlitel/congresstweets}}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Litel, A. (2017). Congress Tweets (2017-2023) [Data set]. https://congress-tweets.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Litel, Alex. Congress Tweets (2017-2023). 2017, congress-tweets.echo.directory/.