These samples of Tweets (or 'status updates') were collected from the Twitter Streaming APIs (see API Documentation, Streaming Overview). Each file consists of line-separated JSON-formatted tweets, i.e. one Tweet per line. For a detailed description of the JSON fields in a Tweet, see Tweets: Field Guide.

Any use of this data is subject to the Twitter Developer Agreement and Developer Policy.

Collected from the public stream of the Streaming API using the statuses / filter endpoint. The value of track was set to the following keywords:

"david cameron, miliband, milliband, sturgeon, clegg, farage, tory, tories, ukip, snp, libdem"