MonkeyPox2022Tweets
A twitter dataset of 255,363 tweet IDs about the 2022 monkeypox outbreak, collected by Thakur (University of Cincinnati, 2022). Each record contains tweet IDs only — full content requires hydration. First public Twitter dataset on the 2022 monkeypox outbreak, enabling early-stage disease discourse analysis. Suitable for disease surveillance, public health communication, health misinformation.
Cite this dataset at
monkeypox-tweets.echo.directory
Analytics
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
255,363 tweet IDs about the 2022 monkeypox outbreak (May 7 – July 23, 2022). First public Twitter dataset on the 2022 monkeypox outbreak. Twitter/X API now requires paid access for hydration.
Record
- Catalog key
monkeypox_tweets- Authors
- Thakur, Nirmalya
- Year
- 2022
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.5281/zenodo.6898178
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 255,363
- Text corpus
- tweet text
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2022-05-07 to 2022-07-23 (2020s)
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/6898178 unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-16, 5.1 MB across 6 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{thakur2022monkeypox,
title = {MonkeyPox2022Tweets},
author = {Thakur, Nirmalya},
year = {2022},
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6898178}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Thakur, N. (2022). MonkeyPox2022Tweets [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6898178
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Thakur, Nirmalya. MonkeyPox2022Tweets. 2022, doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6898178.