After Woolwich Twitter Corpus Data The data is a CSV formatted file consisting of the Tweets ID and the "created_at" date. This file is intended to by used from code, rather than being opened by a text or spreadsheet editor, as the large file size can cause issues with many popular packages. Following is an example of opening this file in Python (with the csv package installed): import csv with open("AfterWoolwich_TwitterCorpus.csv", "r") as f: reader = csv.reader(f) for row in reader: pass # do something with the row For an example that downloads all tweets, see tweetsFromCSV.py. To use, the Twython module must be installed for python. To run, you must substitute the Twitter API credentials in tweetsFromCSV.py (prefixed with "YOUR_") with your own obtained from (https://apps.twitter.com/). Run with "python tweetsFromCSV.py" This will save tweets in a JSON format in a folder called "after_woolwich_tweets", named in the format ".json".