Sanders Twitter Sentiment Corpus
Niek Sanders' hand-classified corpus of tweets about Apple, Google, Microsoft and Twitter from October 15 to 20, 2011, each labelled positive, negative, neutral or irrelevant. Sanders Analytics released 5,513 tweet IDs with labels; 5,113 of them have text in the hydrated copy on GitHub (zfz/twitter_corpus), which ECHO uses, alongside the original release. Useful as a small, early benchmark for brand sentiment. Released free for research; no licence stated.
Cite this dataset at
twitter-brand-sentiment-2011.echo.directory
Analytics
Topic 0
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3
Topic 4
Topic 5
Topic 6
Topic 7
Topic 8
Topic 9
Topic 10
Topic 11
Show all 16 topics
Topic 12
Topic 13
Topic 14
Topic 15
- neutral2.3K (45.6%)
- irrelevant1.7K (33.0%)
- negative572 (11.2%)
- positive519 (10.2%)
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
sanders-twitter-sentiment- Authors
- Sanders, Niek J.
- Year
- 2011
- Source paper
- Sanders-Twitter Sentiment Corpus
- License
- Free for research (Sanders Analytics); no licence stated (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 5,113
- Nodes are
- unknown
- Edges are
- unknown
- Text corpus
- tweet text
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2011-10-15 to 2011-10-20 (2010s)
- Tasks
- Text classification (multi-class;
topic_label) inferred, Sentiment classification (multi-class;sentiment_label) inferred - Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://github.com/zfz/twitter_corpus link checked
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{sanders2011,
title = {Sanders-Twitter Sentiment Corpus},
author = {Sanders, Niek J.},
year = {2011},
publisher = {Sanders Analytics LLC}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Sanders, N. J. (2011). Sanders Twitter Sentiment Corpus [Data set]. https://twitter-brand-sentiment-2011.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Sanders, Niek J. Sanders Twitter Sentiment Corpus. 2011, twitter-brand-sentiment-2011.echo.directory/.