“…Social scientists use social media data to study a range of topics such as economic and consumer behavior (Antenucci, Cafarella, Levenstein, Ré, & Shapiro, 2014;Asur & Huberman, 2010) , cultural differences (Hochman & Schwartz, 2012) , social capital (Ellison, Vitak, Gray, & Lampe, 2014;Gil de Zúñiga, Jung, & Valenzuela, 2012) , feminist and anti-racist movements (Brock, 2012;Dixon, 2014;Freelon, McIlwain, & Clark, 2016) , political activism (Boulianne, 2015;Freelon, 2015;Roback & Hemphill, 2013) , the relationship between social and traditional media (Jungherr, 2014;Papacharissi & de Fatima Oliveira, 2012;Shapiro & Hemphill, 2017;Soroka, Daku, Hiaeshutter-Rice, Guggenheim, & Pasek, 2018) , and the impact and reach of research (Haustein et al, 2016;Thelwall, Haustein, Larivière, & Sugimoto, 2013) . In our analysis of research that used Twitter data we found a similar breadth of research topics, ranging from audience interactions around television shows (Boukes & Trilling, 2017;e.g., Williams & Gonlin, 2017) to social justice movements under hashtags such as #Ferguson (e.g., Barnard, 2017) , and many political discussions around the world (e.g., . Several studies used Twitter to characterize social networks of followers of particular hashtags, to test its effectiveness as a communication medium, or to identify characteristics of tweets associated with concepts like trustworthiness or utility.…”