USC X-24: US Election 2024 Twitter Dataset

A Twitter/X dataset of 42,014,825 tweets from the 2024 US presidential election period across 39 data parts with full engagement metadata (41,561,521 records with engagement metrics), collected by USC Information Sciences Institute via Twitter/X API during the 2024 US election period. Each record contains tweet text, engagement metrics (reply count, retweet count, like count, quote count, view count), language, media attachments, reply chain metadata, user location, and publication timestamp. The dataset is notable for its one of the largest publicly available datasets from the 2024 US presidential election, with full engagement metadata per tweet enabling study of information amplification and political discourse dynamics. Intended for research into political opinion mining, election discourse analysis, misinformation detection, engagement prediction, and temporal analysis of political social media.

#Us election 2024#Usc isi#User location

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Content metrics

41,561,521 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

replyCountμ 43.2B ± 278.7T
min 0max 1796635.4T
retweetCountμ 130.9B ± 487.2T
min 0max 1816540.3T
likeCountμ 22.3B ± 144T
min 0max 928061T
quoteCountμ 1.397 ± 70.891
min 0max 174.7K
viewCountμ 29.1K ± 969.8K
min 1max 339.8M
8.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.6
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
bidentrumpmagagopjoelikehunterpeoplepresidentconservativeampdondonaldknowvotethinkamericarighttimegoingwantfamilycountryhousedemocratsyearsgarlandrepublicansgoodpartyelectiondoesnneedsaidwayadministrationmoneyjoebidenletborderamericanconvictedfeloncrimemandidngotwonbetterlaw
Topic clusters

Topic 0

good
like
thank
love
look
time
lol
think

Topic 1

hunter
biden
crime
pardon
gun
convict
conviction
family

Topic 2

biden
joe
president
bad
like
year
think
look

Topic 3

vote
biden
trump
voter
win
joe
think
president

Topic 4

conservative
liberal
party
labour
right
like
vote
government

Topic 5

que
los
con
por
las
biden
les
como

Topic 6

gop
republican
republicans
vote
ryan
party
house
state

Topic 7

maga
like
know
people
think
yes
great
want

Topic 8

inflation
price
economy
biden
taxis
trump
rate
tax

Topic 9

garland
contempt
merrick
hold
audio
house
privilege
executive

Topic 10

border
terrorist
open
asylum
illegal
biden
migrant
isis

Topic 11

jill
daughter
shower
ashley
biden
pedophile
joe
babysitter
Show all 17 topics

Topic 12

maga
cult
lie
stupid
cultist
moron
people
fact

Topic 13

donald
trump
america
president
love
support
wethepeople
trumptrain

Topic 14

russia
ukraine
putin
russian
cuba
war
biden
nuclear

Topic 15

israel
hamas
gaza
netanyahu
biden
genocide
ceasefire
blinken

Topic 16

lie
liar
biden
fake
joe
election
fact
tell
Top hashtags
#maga539
#trump2024506
#biden278
#trump207
#gop128
#donaldtrump68
#fjb67
#joebiden66
#smartnews52
#newsbreak47
#usa46
#hunterbiden43
#foxnews40
#tiktok40
#bitcoin37
#democrats37
#republicans37
#voteblue34
#biden202432
#meme31
Top emoji
🇺1.7K
🇸1.5K
🤣1.5K
😂1.5K
🤡884
💙332
🔥318
👇315
🏻310
👍307
💯262
👏250
🙄242
🤔222
🙏208

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 42M records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
usc-x24
Authors
Balasubramanian, Ashwin; Zou, Vito; Narayana, Hitesh; You, Christina; Luceri, Luca; Ferrara, Emilio
Year
2024
Source paper
A Public Dataset Tracking Social Media Discourse about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election on Twitter/X
DOI / arXiv
10.48550/arXiv.2411.00376
License
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
42,014,825
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2024 (2020s)
Tasks
Bot detection inferred
Region
United States · North America (inferred: named in the description)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://github.com/sinking8/usc-x-24-us-election link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 15.4 GB across 882 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}
}

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2411.00376,
  doi       = {10.48550/ARXIV.2411.00376},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00376},
  author    = {Balasubramanian, Ashwin and Zou, Vito and Narayana, Hitesh and You, Christina and Luceri, Luca and Ferrara, Emilio},
  keywords  = {Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), FOS: Computer and information sciences},
  title     = {A Public Dataset Tracking Social Media Discourse about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election on Twitter/X},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year      = {2024},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}

APA

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

Balasubramanian, A., Zou, V., Narayana, H., You, C., Luceri, L., & Ferrara, E. (2024). USC X-24: US Election 2024 Twitter Dataset [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.00376

MLA

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

Balasubramanian, Ashwin, et al. USC X-24: US Election 2024 Twitter Dataset. 2024, doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.00376.

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