Due to size limitations, this dataset is no longer updated. Further data as of January 2013 can be found in this dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7670097 This dataset contains German tweets and Twitter accounts recorded from the public Twitter Streaming API using the following filters: terms: 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', and 'n' language: 'de' This filter combination should record a 1% sample of (almost) all German tweets (in German it is very unlikely that terms do not contain vowels or the frequently used character 'n'). This dataset might be useful for the following use cases: Natural language processing (focussing on Twitter specifics in German, there exist only little German datasets) Social Network Analysis (Twitter network) Identifying behavioural patterns (retweeting, quoting, replying, hate speech, ...) Sharing political (or other domain-specific) content Bot detection and more ... This dataset will be updated monthly. Each sample (starting in April 2019) will follow the following naming pattern: german-tweet-sample-<YEAR>-<MONTH>.zip (size: ~ 1GB) It will contain several bunches of recorded JSON gzipped files.