Looking For Twitter Dataset For A Research Project On Use Of Social Media And Online Mobilization

Hello,

I’m very new to this, so I’m extremely sorry for any beginner terminology used here. I plan to do my bachelor’s thesis on the use of Twitter for online mobilization during the “Dalit Lives Matter” movement (a movement based in India- very similar to the Black Lives Matter movement if not obvious tweets timeline from 2016- 2021). I am planning to do a content or sentiment analysis of the tweets.

I was looking for methods on how to access such datasets, I have heard X’s API has been put behind a paywall and the free version cannot support archival search. I contacted a third party for access to tweets and they are charging a hundred dollars for the same.

Please let me know what is the best way to go about this, if required I can connect in DMs to give out additional details.

Thank You 🙂