Data was collected from a 10% uniform sample of Twitter posts made during 2013, specifically the Gardenhose API. Control documents were also selected. These documents did not contain any of `caused', `causing', or `causes', nor any bidirectional words, and are further matched temporally to obtain the same number of control documents as causal documents in each fifteen-minute period during 2013. Control documents were otherwise selected randomly; causal synonyms may be present. 
 Question: how do they collect the comparable corpus?
Randomly from a Twitter dump