This document summarizes an ongoing study that is investigating how social media researchers manage and work with social media data. The study uses qualitative interviews with 20 social media researchers so far from a variety of disciplines and countries. The interviews explore the researchers' data collection, management and analysis practices as well as problems they encounter. Preliminary results on selected topics are presented but coding and analysis of the full set of interviews is still ongoing. The goal is to develop theories on how social media research can be improved based on lessons learned from researchers' experiences working with these new types of digital data sources.