Dataset: Wisconsin Union Protester Tweets #wiunion

I've been playing with Twitter data over the last week, archiving Algerian, Egyptian, Iranian, and Chinese tweets. I thought I'd bring the story a little closer to home this time by archiving tweets from Wisconsin Union protesters on the #wiunion tag. Grab the dataset of 165,593 tweets here, and check out the two figure of 5-minute tweet counts and highest frequency accounts below. The code to generate the figures is also available at this gist.

Update: I've updated the sample to the present, so it now includes 206,005 tweets from Feb 16 to the morning of Feb 22. I've also updated the figures and added a table of the ten highest frequency tweeters in the text of the post.

Ten Highest Frequency Tweeters

@jenn976: 1636 tweets
@WEAC: 974 tweets
@WarLordwrites: 905 tweets
@coopmike48: 823 tweets
@Rocky1542: 818 tweets
@Khassy2010: 806 tweets
@all_a_twitt_r: 711 tweets
@Leoslaire: 667 tweets
@CAFalk: 660 tweets
@MotorHomeless: 644 tweets