We defined the selection criteria for the politicians, the worldlist and hashtags for the relevant Tweets and got three lists:

• Members of the German parliament (Bundestag) using Twitter (545)
• Important politicians that are not members of the German parliament:
  • Federal ministers: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Julia Klöckner, Svenja Schulze
  • Party leaders: Markus Söder, Norbert Walter-Borjans, Jörg Meuthen
  • Politicians with many followers: Volker Beck, Ruprecht Polenz, Kevin Kühnert, Ralf Stegner

• Based on the German digital dictionary: Vocabulary to Covid-19 (256 words) (dwds.de/themenglossar/Corona)
• Reviewed: 66 deleted and 47 added through Tweet research

• Collected from Tweet research
• Extract: #Lockdown, #Corona, #LockdownJetzt, #Ausgangssperre, #Lockdown2, #Masken, #Bevoelkerungsschutzgesetz, #PCR, #Covid19de, #Covid2019, #coronadeutschland, #Covid19, #Pandemie, #coronavirus, #Coronavirusdeutschland, #CoronaVirusDE, #COVIDー19 , #Covid_19, #ChinaVirus, #WellenbrecherShutdown, #LongCovid, #Coronahilfen, #Shutdown, #Coronakrise, #Soforthilfen, #CoronaBlog, #Coronaopfer, #CoronaPandemie, #SocialDistancing, #Covid19, #AHAFormel, #rki_de, #SeuchenRegiment, #lockdownlight, #harterLockdownJetzt, #lockdownlightagain, #COVIDPandemic, #Coronaschulen, #coronaquerfront, #CoronaWegimpfen, #coronamassnahmen

• Link: github.com/JonasPuchinger/UR_MI_FS_WS_20_21_Group_G
• Submodule: TweetScraper (a fork of github.com/jonbakerfish/TweetScraper)
  • Python-based wrapper for Twitter Advanced Search
  • Allows us to retrieve Tweets by specifying account and timespan
• Collecting Tweets from the past year from the chosen politicians
• Filtering the relevant Tweets through the wordlist and the hashtags