The goal of this project is to create a proof-of-concept science gateway for the acquisition, storage, sharing, analysis, and visualization of social media data, named the Social Media Macroscope. The Social Media Macroscope will provide an innovative, easy-to-use, and powerful science gateway for research utilizing social media data. It will make utilizing social media data with data science approaches more accessible to researchers and will provide a collaborative platform in which researchers from various areas create synergy in novel projects using social media data.