We share the largest dataset for the Pakistani Twittersphere consisting of over 49 million tweets, collected during one of the most politically active periods in the country. We collect the data after the deposition of the government by a No Confidence Vote in April 2022. This large-scale dataset can be used for several downstream tasks such as political bias, bots detection, trolling behavior, (dis)misinformation, and censorship related to Pakistani Twitter users. In addition, this dataset provides a large collection of tweets in Urdu and Roman Urdu that can be used for optimizing language processing tasks.
@article{arxiv.2301.06316,
title = {A Twitter Dataset for Pakistani Political Discourse},
author = {Ehsan-Ul Haq and Haris Bin Zia and Reza Hadi Mogavi and Gareth Tyson and Yang K. Lu and Tristan Braud and Pan Hui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06316},
year = {2023}
}