Twitter sentiment analysis

Social media have received more attention nowadays. Public and private opinion about a wide variety of subjects are expressed and spread continually via numerous social media. Twitter is one of the social media that is gaining popularity. Twitter offers organizations a fast and effective way to anal...

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Published inProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia pp. 212 - 216
Main Authors Sarlan, Aliza, Nadam, Chayanit, Basri, Shuib
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2014
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DOI10.1109/ICIMU.2014.7066632

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Summary:Social media have received more attention nowadays. Public and private opinion about a wide variety of subjects are expressed and spread continually via numerous social media. Twitter is one of the social media that is gaining popularity. Twitter offers organizations a fast and effective way to analyze customers' perspectives toward the critical to success in the market place. Developing a program for sentiment analysis is an approach to be used to computationally measure customers' perceptions. This paper reports on the design of a sentiment analysis, extracting a vast amount of tweets. Prototyping is used in this development. Results classify customers' perspective via tweets into positive and negative, which is represented in a pie chart and html page. However, the program has planned to develop on a web application system, but due to limitation of Django which can be worked on a Linux server or LAMP, for further this approach need to be done.
DOI:10.1109/ICIMU.2014.7066632