The repository contains a collection of Arabic tweets IDs related to novel coronavirus COVID-19. The dataset contains Tweets ids starting from January ,2020 . The Twitter search API was used to gather real-time tweets that contained specific keywords in the Arabic language. To comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service, only the ids of the tweets are released. This dataset is for non-commercial research use only.

• As of April 19, 2020 we have tweets from January,2020 unitl April 15, 2020 tweets. We plan to add more months in upcoming days and continuosly update this page.
• Tweet-ID files are stored in folders that indicate the year and month of the collection
• The Tweet-ID files contain the tweets ids, all files name have the same structure, with a prefix “COVID19-tweetID-year-month-day"

• Only tweets in Arabic language were collected from February 1,2020 to April 15, 2020.
• The keywords.txt file contains the updated keywords along with the date we began tracing them. The Hashtags.txt files contain the hashtags that we followed in our Twitter data-set the number of tweets collected for each hashtag along with the date we began tracing them.
• Since Twitter’s search API have a restriction on the amount of the retrieved data there are missing hours of data.
• We provided preliminary statistics of the data-set in the associated paper to this repository. The preliminary statistics will be automatically updated with every update of the dataset.
• For retrieving, the full object of the tweet consider the following tools Hydrator and twarc .

The following statistics is from Tweets colected until April,15,2020.
The Number of Tweets: 3,934,610
The Number of Original Tweets : 3,934,235
The Number of Retweets: 375
The Average of Tweets Collected Daily : 77471

To hydrate the tweets-ID from our COVID-19-Arabic-Tweets-Dataset GitHub repository you can use our Hydrate_TweetIDs_Arabic_COVID19 notebook.

• The notebook runs on google collab
• You are required to have a Twitter developer account

For those who prefer to use a Graphical User Interface (GUI) , We suggest using Hydrator.

To use Hydrator follow the instructions in the Hydrator GitHub repository.

For Arabic guideline on both Hydrator and our Twarc notebook check our دليل استعادة قاعدة بيانات التغريدات.

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).By using this dataset , you agree to the terms of the LICENSE, and to all Twitter’s Terms of Service, and cite our paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04315

If you have any suggestions or questions, please reach out to saraa.alqurashi on Gmail or eaanazi(AT)uqu(dot)edu(dot)sa