Tweets Originating from India During COVID-19 Lockdowns

This India-specific COVID-19 tweets dataset has been curated using the large-scale Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tweets Dataset. This dataset contains tweets originating from India during the first week of each of the four phases of nationwide lockdowns initiated by the Government of India. For more information on filtering keywords, please visit the primary dataset page.

Announcements: 

• We have released BillionCOV — a billion-scale COVID-19 tweets dataset for efficient hydration. Hydration takes time due to limits placed by Twitter on its tweet lookup endpoint. We re-hydrated the tweets present in COV19Tweets and found that more than 500 million tweet identifiers point to either deleted or protected tweets. If we avoid hydrating those tweet identifiers alone, it saves almost two months in a single hydration task. BillionCOV will receive quarterly updates, while COV19Tweets will continue to receive updates every day. Learn more about BillionCOV on its page: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/871g-yp65
• We also release a million-scale COVID-19-specific geotagged tweets dataset — MegaGeoCOV (on GitHub). The dataset is introduced in the paper "Twitter conversations predict the daily confirmed COVID-19 cases". 

Related publications:

• Rabindra Lamsal. (2021). Design and analysis of a large-scale COVID-19 tweets dataset. Applied Intelligence, 51(5), 2790-2804.
• Rabindra Lamsal, Aaron Harwood, Maria Rodriguez Read. (2022). Socially Enhanced Situation Awareness from Microblogs using Artificial Intelligence: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys, 55(4), 1-38. (arXiv)
• Rabindra Lamsal, Aaron Harwood, Maria Rodriguez Read. (2022). Twitter conversations predict the daily confirmed COVID-19 cases. Applied Soft Computing, 129, 109603. (arXiv)
• Rabindra Lamsal, Aaron Harwood, Maria Rodriguez Read. (2022). Addressing the location A/B problem on Twitter: the next generation location inference research. In 2022 ACM SIGSPATIAL LocalRec (pp. 1-4).
• Rabindra Lamsal, Aaron Harwood, Maria Rodriguez Read. (2022). Where did you tweet from? Inferring the origin locations of tweets based on contextual information. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (pp. 3935-3944). (arXiv)
• Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera. (2023). BillionCOV: An Enriched Billion-scale Collection of COVID-19 tweets for Efficient Hydration. Data in Brief, 48, 109229. (arXiv)
• Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera. (2023). A Twitter narrative of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. In 20th International ISCRAM Conference (pp. 353-370). (arXiv)
• Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera. (2024). CrisisTransformers: Pre-trained language models and sentence encoders for crisis-related social media texts. Knowledge-Based Systems, 296, 111916. (arXiv)
• Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera. (2024). Semantically Enriched Cross-Lingual Sentence Embeddings for Crisis-related Social Media Texts. In 21st International ISCRAM Conference (in press). (arXiv)

— Dataset usage terms : By using this dataset, you agree to (i) use the content of this dataset and the data generated from the content of this dataset for non-commercial research only, (ii) remain in compliance with Twitter's Developer Policy and (iii) cite the following paper:

Lamsal, R. (2020). Design and analysis of a large-scale COVID-19 tweets dataset. Applied Intelligence, 1-15.

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What's inside the dataset?

The files in the dataset contain IDs of the tweets present in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tweets Dataset. Note: Below, (all files) means that all the files mentioned and in-between have been considered to develop the ID file, while (only even-numbered files) suggests that only the even-numbered files have been considered.

Lockdown period tweets: (all files)

Lockdown1.zip: March 25, 2020 - April 02, 2020; corona_tweets_08.csv to corona_tweets_14.csv

Lockdown2.zip: April 14, 2020 - April 21, 2020; corona_tweets_27.csv to corona_tweets_33.csv

Lockdown3.zip: May 01, 2020 - May 07, 2020; corona_tweets_44.csv to corona_tweets_49.csv

Lockdown4.zip: May 18, 2020 - May 23, 2020; corona_tweets_61.csv to corona_tweets_66.csv

Extras: (all files)

extras_june1_june7.zip: corona_tweets_75.csv to corona_tweets_80.csv

Extras: (only even-numbered files)

extras_june24_july1.zip: corona_tweets_96.csv to corona_tweets_104.csv

extras_july2_july15.zip: corona_tweets_106.csv to corona_tweets_118.csv

extras_july16_august4.zip: corona_tweets_120.csv to corona_tweets_138.csv

extras_august5_august18.zip: corona_tweets_140.csv to corona_tweets_152.csv

extras_august19_september1.zip: corona_tweets_154.csv to corona_tweets_166.csv

extras_september2_september15.zip: corona_tweets_168.csv to corona_tweets_180.csv