Cubans and the 2020 US Presidential Election Twitter Archive

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Cubans and the 2020 US Presidential Election Twitter Archive

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  • 2020 (Creation)

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606.5 MB

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The collection contains a data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging and social networking service documenting Cuban and Cuban diaspora responses to the 2020 US presidential election.

From October 23 to November 9, 2020, the Cuban Heritage Collection collected tweets relating to the following phrases and hashtags: Cuban and Trump, Cuban and Biden, Otaola and Trump, Otaola and Biden, #TodosConBiden, #CubanosConBiden, #CubansforBiden, #CubanosConTrump, #CubansforTrump, and #LatinosforTrump.

The tweets collected by the Cuban Heritage Collection for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restritions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

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This collection is currently closed for research.
For specific questions, please contact chc@miami.edu.

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Preferred citation: Cubans and the 2020 US Presidential Election Twitter Archive, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.

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This collection was acquired and collected by the University of Miami Libraries using the Python program, Twarc, developed by Ed Summers.

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Finding aid created by Amanda Moreno, November 2020. Updated by Juan A. Villanueva, April 2022.

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