Data Donation Instructions


Thank you for donating your Twitter/X data for a Princeton Mental Health Lab study.

If your downloaded Twitter/X file is a zip file (ending in .zip), please manually unzip the file on your computer (typically double-clicking, or right-clicking and selecting 'unzip')

The following pages will prompt you to upload two specific files from this folder, 'tweets.js' and 'like.js'

  1. "tweets.js" = information about your posted Tweets, with timestamps.
  2. "like.js" = information about your liked Tweets, with timestamps.

More information can be found in the consent form.

All your Twitter/X data is locally extracted, meaning the researchers do not have access to any data other than the files you upload.

We store your social media data on secure password-protected Princeton University servers. We will remove identifiable information from your posts, and we will never share or publish the text of your Tweets in their raw form.