Bitcoin Tweets
Tweets with trending #Bitcoin and #btc hashtag
@kaggle.kaushiksuresh147_bitcoin_tweets
About this Dataset
Bitcoin Tweets
Context
Bitcoin(₿) is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The currency began use in 2009 when its implementation was released as open-source software.
Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. Bitcoins are created as a reward for a process known as mining. They can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services.
On 30 November 2020, bitcoin hit a new all-time high of $19,860 topping the previous high from December 2017. On 19 January 2021 Elon Musk placed #Bitcoin in his Twitter profile tweeting “In retrospect, it was inevitable”, which caused the price to briefly rise about $5000 in an hour to $37,299.
Content
The tweets have #Bitcoin and #btc hashtag.. Collection star started on 6/2/2021, with an initial 100,000 tweets, and will continue on a daily basis.
Information regarding the data
The data totally consists of 1 lakh+ records with 13 columns. The description of the features is given below
| No | Columns | Descriptions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | user_name | The name of the user, as they’ve defined it. |
| 2 | user_location | The user-defined location for this account’s profile. |
| 3 | user_description | The user-defined UTF-8 string describing their account. |
| 4 | user_created | Time and date, when the account was created. |
| 5 | user_followers | The number of followers an account currently has. |
| 6 | user_friends | The number of friends an account currently has. |
| 7 | user_favourites | The number of favorites an account currently has |
| 8 | user_verified | When true, indicates that the user has a verified account |
| 9 | date | UTC time and date when the Tweet was created |
| 10 | text | The actual UTF-8 text of the Tweet |
| 11 | hashtags | All the other hashtags posted in the tweet along with #Bitcoin & #btc |
| 12 | source | Utility used to post the Tweet, Tweets from the Twitter website have a source value - web |
| 13 | is_retweet | Indicates whether this Tweet has been Retweeted by the authenticating user. |
Inspiration
The tweets were extracted using tweepy, Refer to this notebook for the complete extraction process https://www.kaggle.com/kaushiksuresh147/twitter-data-extraction-for-ipl2020
You can use this data to dive into the subjects that use this hashtag, look to the geographical distribution, evaluate sentiments, looks at trends.