The data accessible through the API and AIReD (the dashboard) is being collected using:
- Twitter posts were harvested (Twitter unilaterally stopped the harvesting in April 2023) using the Twitter Streaming API, which gives access in real-time to all newly posted tweets. The stream of tweets is filtered to include only the users that were either located in Australia at the time of posting or that mentioned Australia in their Twitter profile (excluding retweets to avoid document repetitions and to minimise, to the extent possible, content that would likely be produced by “bots”);
- Mastodon: only public posts from the Mastodon.au node are collected;
- Flickr posts are filtered geographically, with a bounding box covering the whole of Australia;
- YouTube posts are filtered using multiple geographic queries that cover the whole country;
- Reddit posts are collected from subreddits that have Australian locations in their names;
- BlueSky posts are harvested from users who are thought to be based in Australia, follow several Australian users, or write posts about Australia.
BibTeX citation:
@misc{aio2025,
Author = {AIReD},
Title = {AIReD website},
Howpublished = {https://www.aio.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au/},
Url = {https://www.aio.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au/},
Year = {2025}}
}