CrisisLex — 2013_Savar_building_collapse

A Twitter dataset of 1,250 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 Savar building collapse crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 Savar building collapse crisis, collected systematically across 26 events for comparative analysis. Intended for research into crisis informatics, disaster response, social media analysis, cross-crisis comparison, emergency communication patterns, situation awareness.

#Bangladesh#Building collapse#Crisis informatics#Crisislex#Rana plaza#Savar

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Analytics

10.5
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
13.8
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
bangladeshcollapsebuildingfactorytolldeathsavargarmentdhakaampdeadranapeopleplazacollapsedworkerskilledpassestobeymonsterpolicekillsfoundfireownerdaysshahbagnewsrescuers000breakingrubblesurvivorssafetybbcbreakinghttpvictimstopsgaprisessearcharrestedclothesfactoriesrescuetragedy500woman800banglabodies
Topic clusters

Topic 0

factory
garment
collapse
bangladesh
death
toll
safety
kill

Topic 1

bangladesh
edificio
derrumbe
por
que
les
del
más

Topic 2

protester
bangladesh
police
siegedhaka
savebangladesh
hasina
banglaspring
banglaspre

Topic 3

building
collapse
dead
bangladesh
kill
usa
news
today

Topic 4

savar
shahbag
bangladesh
need
savebangladesh
rescue
building
survivor

Topic 5

rana
plaza
del
dan
anger
banglades
penyelamat
des

Topic 6

toll
death
pass
building
collapse
bangladesh
news
reach

Topic 7

day
woman
rubble
survivor
rescuer
find
alive
collapse

Topic 8

owner
arrest
building
engineer
police
court
bangladesh
collapsed
Top hashtags
#bangladesh581
#savar46
#shahbag41
#banglaspring23
#dhaka23
#savebangladesh23
#bangla21
#banglanews20
#বলসবদ20
#bdnews14
#pakistan10
#savartragedy10
#siegedhaka10
#breaking9
#hasina9
#news8
#syria8
#anonymous7
#india7
#ranaplaza7
Top emoji
🙏2
👀1
💯1
🙈1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Savar_building_collapse
Authors
Olteanu, Alexandra; Vieweg, Sarah; Castillo, Carlos
Year
2015
Source paper
What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises
DOI / arXiv
10.1145/2675133.2675242
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
1,250
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2012-2013 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://crisislex.org/ link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 466.4 KB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{olteanu2015expect,
  author    = {Olteanu, Alexandra and Vieweg, Sarah and Castillo, Carlos},
  title     = {What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises},
  year      = {2015},
  doi       = {10.1145/2675133.2675241},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
  series    = {CSCW '15},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address   = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Olteanu, A., Vieweg, S., & Castillo, C. (2015). CrisisLex — 2013_Savar_building_collapse [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Olteanu, Alexandra, et al. CrisisLex — 2013_Savar_building_collapse. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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