Abstract

This paper presents the TikTok 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Dataset, a large-scale resource designed to advance research into political communication and social media dynamics. The dataset comprises 3.14 million videos published on TikTok between November 1, 2023, and October 16, 2024, including video IDs and transcripts. Data collection was conducted using the TikTok Research API with a comprehensive set of election-related keywords and hashtags, supplemented by third-party tools to address API limitations and expand content coverage. This approach enables the analysis of hashtag co-occurrence networks, revealing politically aligned hashtags based on ideological affiliations, the evolution of top hashtags over time, and summary statistics that highlight the dataset's scale and richness. This dataset offers insights into TikTok's role in shaping electoral discourse by providing a multimodal view of …

Date

2025

Authors

Gabriela Pinto, Charles Bickham, Tanishq Salkar, Joyston Menezes, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara

Book

Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025

Pages

773-776