ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

#BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter Tweet IDs

LimitedMediumgraphtextTwitter (X)Hate speechIdentityPolarizationPolitical communicationRace & ethnicitySocial movement

A twitter dataset of 767,139 tweet IDs from #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter (10% Gardenhose sample, Aug 2014–Aug 2015), collected by Gallagher (Northeastern University, 2018). Each record contains tweet IDs only — full content requires hydration. Paired collection of #BLM and #ALM tweets enabling contrastive social movement analysis. Suitable for social movement analysis, racial discourse, political polarization.

#All lives matter#Black lives matter#Hashtag#Tweet ids

Cite this dataset at blm-tweets.echo.directory

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Data availability: Tweet IDs — hydration required

  • Tweet IDs only — full content requires Twitter API hydration
  • Twitter Academic Research API (free tier) retired — hydration now requires paid access

Contains tweet IDs from #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter hashtags (2018). After hydration, retweet and reply relationships form a directed social graph. Twitter/X API now requires paid access for hydration.

#BLM + #ALM
Hashtags
2018
Year
Social Justice
Topic
Twitter API (paid)
Hydration

Record

Catalog key
blm_tweets
Authors
Gallagher, Ryan
Year
2018
DOI / arXiv
10.7910/DVN/IQ525U
License
CC0 1.0 (CC0-1.0)
Records
767,139
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2014-08-08 to 2015-08-31 (2010s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IQ525U unverified
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-16, 15.8 MB across 2 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}
}

@dataset{gallagher2018blm,
  title     = {\#BlackLivesMatter and \#AllLivesMatter Tweet IDs},
  author    = {Gallagher, Ryan},
  year      = {2018},
  publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
  doi       = {10.7910/DVN/IQ525U}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Gallagher, R. (2018). #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter Tweet IDs [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IQ525U

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Gallagher, Ryan. #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter Tweet IDs. 2018, doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IQ525U.

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