Ian, do you and Nick have any ideas how you are going to use the dataset, beyond the simple analysis? Or are you just putting it out there for other people to use?

@WzMacdonald We're using it for analysis on other projects. But, it is out there for other to use and cite.

http://hdl.handle.net/10864/11311

Very cool. I've had a number of research consultations recently where students are interested in how they can analyze events and social trends using twitter streams. Now I have an example to walk them through.

@WzMacdonald that's great!

Thanks @WzMacdonald - really appreciate the comments here!

A minor point--in the Users section, we get the specifics on how many accounts were represented in the tweets:

From the above, we can see that there are 318,176 unique users in the dataset

I wonder if this may be important enough to emphasize in the Introduction (or somewhere near the beginning), to connect with these comments:

Social and cultural historians will have access to the thoughts, behaviours, and activities of everyday people, the sorts of which who are not generally preserved in the record.

300,000+ everyday people (well, some everyday bots too) is an interesting number to ponder.

@russellwhite good point! @ianmilligan1 want to mention that in the intro?

Sounds good! Thanks @russellwhite - @ruebot, I'll take a stab at incorporating something re: that in the introduction.