Twitter is an extraordinary microblogging tool used by millions of users regularly. Through its primary purpose is socially connecting users and helping them share their thoughts, it has become an excellent tool for aggregating research by researchers and academicians globally. The present study collates data from Twitter using #research shared on a particular date using data mining techniques. The collected data is analysed based on retweets for the country of origin, accompanying hashtags, and most popular tweets, and the content of the tweets is also analysed. It is astonishing that though there are 1584 unique tweets, only 425 are retweeted. There are about 274 retweets that are retweeted at least once, while there are only 4 retweets that are repeatedly shared by other users at least more than 10 times. The study investigates the usage of #research on Twitter to glean insight into the content of the majorly shared tweets.