diff --git a/src/create_id_list.py b/src/create_id_list.py
index 5e9bcd7..a8e1c20 100644
--- a/src/create_id_list.py
+++ b/src/create_id_list.py
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
+"""
+This script exports tweet ids from tweet dataset so that
+the generation of the  adjacency matrix is reproducable
+without having to share full text of the uses tweets.
+"""
+
 import pandas as pd
 
 tweets_path = "../raw_data/tweets.csv"
+output_path = "../raw_data/ids"
 
 tweets = pd.read_csv(tweets_path)
 
-for id in tweets.id:
-    print(id)
+with open(output_path, "w") as f:
+    f.write("\n".join(tweets.id.astype(str)))