US EPA Twitter posts from 2013-2014 and 2017-2018

This dataset refers to posts made by the US EPA on Twitter (https://twitter.com/epa) during the years 2013-2014 and 2017-2018. Twitter (now X) was selected as one of the major social media platforms that government agencies use to communicate with the public. This data was analyzed for several discourse categories (e.g., speech acts, sentiment, expressives, actors, etc.) in a content analysis described in publications associated with this dataset. As of March 29, 2019, the EPA Twitter account had produced over 15,000 tweets and had over 595,000 followers. For reference, as of March 14, 2024, the account had about 623,000 followers. This data refers to a sample of all posts (not retweets and replies) made during the first 16 months of Administrator Gina McCarthy and the first 16 months of Administrator Scott Pruitt.