Opinion and Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Users during the 2021 Ecuador Presidential Election

Twitter sentiment analysis is an effective tool for various Twitter-based analysis tasks. However, there is still no neural-network-based research which takes both the tweet-text information and user-connection information into account. To this end, we propose the Attentional-graph Neural Network based Twitter Sentiment Analyzer (AGN-TSA), a Twitter sentiment analyzer based on attentional-graph neural networks. AGN-TSA fuses the tweet-text information and the user-connection information through a three-layered neural structure, which includes a word-embedding layer, a user-embedding layer and an attentional graph network layer. For the training of AGN-TSA, dedicated loss functions are designed for the structural controllability of AGN-TSA network. Experiments based on real-world dataset concerning the 2016 presidential election of America exhibit that AGN-TSA is superior under multiple metrics over several prevailing methods, with a performance boost of over 5%. The empirical settings of parameters are given based on extensive rotation experiments.

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Sentiment Analysis on Predicting Presidential Election: Twitter Used Case

Intelligent Computing Systems - Communications in Computer and Information Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-43364-2_10 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 105-117

Author(s):

Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi ◽

Huwida E. Said

Keyword(s):

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Presidential Election

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Tweet Sentiment Analysis of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 ◽

10.1145/3442442.3452322 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ethan Xia ◽

Han Yue ◽

Hongfu Liu

Keyword(s):

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Presidential Election

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Exploring user sentiment towards sponsorship and ambush marketing

International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship ◽

10.1108/ijsms-03-2019-0026 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 583-602 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nick Burton

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Value Added ◽

Statistical Modelling ◽

Consumer Attitudes ◽

Content Type ◽

Event Marketing ◽

Ambush Marketing ◽

Ethics Research ◽

Twitter Users

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore consumer attitudes towards ambush marketing and official event sponsorship through the lens of sentiment analysis, and to examine social media users' ethical responses to digital event marketing campaigns during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Design/methodology/approach The study employed a sentiment analysis, examining Twitter users’ utilization of sponsor and non-sponsor promotional hashtags. Statistical modelling programme R was used to access Twitter’s API, enabling the analysis and coding of user tweets pertaining to six marketing campaigns. The valence of each tweet – as well as the apparent user motivation underlying each post – was assessed, providing insight into Twitter users’ ethical impressions of sponsor and ambush marketer activities on social media and online engagement with social media marketing. Findings The study’s findings indicate that consumer attitudes towards ambush marketing may be significantly more positive than previously thought. Users’ attitudes towards ambush marketing appear significantly more positive than previously assumed, as users of social media emerged as highly responsive to creative and value-added non-sponsor campaigns. Originality/value The findings affirm that sentiment analysis may afford scholars and practitioners a viable means of assessing consumer attitudes towards social marketing activations, dependent upon campaign objectives and strategy. The study provides a new and invaluable context to consumer affect and ambush ethics research, advancing sponsorship and ambush marketing delivery and social sponsorship analytical practice.

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Incidental Effects of Automated Retweeting: An Exploratory Network Perspective on Bot Activity During Sri Lanka’s Presidential Election in 2015

Bulletin of Science Technology & Society ◽

10.1177/0270467617736219 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 57-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Chamil Rathnayake ◽

Wayne Buente

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Presidential Election ◽

Sri Lankan ◽

Eigenvector Centrality ◽

Data Set ◽

Political Processes ◽

User Expectations ◽

Twitter Users ◽

And Behavior

The role of automated or semiautomated social media accounts, commonly known as “bots,” in social and political processes has gained significant scholarly attention. The current body of research discusses how bots can be designed to achieve specific purposes as well as instances of unexpected negative outcomes of such use. We suggest that the interplay between social media affordances and user practices can result in incidental effects from automated agents. We examined a Twitter network data set with 1,782 nodes and 5,640 edges to demonstrate the engagement and outreach of a retweeting bot called Siripalabot that was popular among Sri Lankan Twitter users. The bot served the simple function of retweeting tweets with hashtags #SriLanka and #lk to its follower network. However, the co-use of #Sri Lanka and/or #lk with #PresPollSL, a hashtag used to discuss politics related to Sri Lanka’s presidential election in 2015, resulted in the bot incidentally amplifying the political voice of less engaged actors. The analysis demonstrated that the bot dominated the network in terms of engagement (out-degree) and the ability to connect distant clusters of actors (betweenness centrality) while more traditional actors, such as the main election candidates and news accounts, indicated more prestige (in-degree) and power (eigenvector centrality). We suggest that the study of automated agents should include designer intentions, the design and behavior of automated agents, user expectations, as well as unintended and incidental effects of interaction.

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Twitter analysis of the orthodontic patient experience with braces vs Invisalign

The Angle Orthodontist ◽

10.2319/062816-508.1 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 87 (3) ◽

pp. 377-383 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Daniel Noll ◽

Brendan Mahon ◽

Bhavna Shroff ◽

Caroline Carrico ◽

Steven J. Lindauer

Keyword(s):

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Patient Experience ◽

Large Scale ◽

Specific Content ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Data Collection Program ◽

Twitter Analysis ◽

Twitter Users ◽

Negative Sentiment ◽

Collection Program

ABSTRACT Objective: To examine the orthodontic patient experience having braces compared with Invisalign by means of a large-scale Twitter sentiment analysis. Materials and Methods: A custom data collection program was created that collected tweets containing the words “braces” or “Invisalign” for a period of 5 months. A hierarchal Naïve Bayes sentiment analysis classifier was developed to sort the tweets into five categories: positive, negative, neutral, advertisement, or not applicable. Each category was then analyzed for specific content. Results: A total of 419,363 tweets applicable to orthodontics were collected. Users posted significantly more positive tweets (61%) than they did negative tweets (39%; P ≤ .0001). There was no significant difference in the distribution of positive and negative sentiment between braces and Invisalign tweets (P = .4189). Positive orthodontics-related tweets often highlighted gratitude for a great smile accompanied with selfies. Negative orthodontic tweets frequently focused on pain. Conclusion: Twitter users expressed more positive than negative sentiment about orthodontic treatment with no significant difference in sentiment between braces and Invisalign tweets.

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Sarcastic Soulmates

Linguistic Issues in Language Technology ◽

10.33011/lilt.v14i.1405 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

Author(s):

Koen Hallmann ◽

Florian Kunneman ◽

Christine Liebrecht ◽

Antal Van den Bosch ◽

Margot Van Mulken

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Opinion Mining ◽

Automatic Detection ◽

Verbal Irony ◽

Generalization Performance ◽

User Classification ◽

Mutual Knowledge ◽

Learning Classifier ◽

Twitter Users

Verbal irony, or sarcasm, presents a significant technical and conceptual challenge when it comes to automatic detection. Moreover, it can be a disruptive factor in sentiment analysis and opinion mining, because it changes the polarity of a message implicitly. Extant methods for automatic detection are mostly based on overt clues to ironic intent such as hashtags, also known as irony markers. In this paper, we investigate whether people who know each other make use of irony markers less often than people who do not know each other. We trained a machine-learning classifier to detect sarcasm in Twitter messages (tweets) that were addressed to specific users, and in tweets that were not addressed to a particular user. Human coders analyzed the top-1000 features found to be most discriminative into ten categories of irony markers. The classifier was also tested within and across the two categories. We find that tweets with a user mention contain fewer irony markers than tweets not addressed to a particular user. Classification experiments confirm that the irony in the two types of tweets is signaled differently. The within-category performance of the classifier is about 91% for both categories, while cross-category experiments yield substantially lower generalization performance scores of 75% and 71%. We conclude that irony markers are used more often when there is less mutual knowledge between sender and receiver. Senders addressing other Twitter users less often use irony markers, relying on mutual knowledge which should lead the receiver to infer ironic intent from more implicit clues. With regard to automatic detection, we conclude that our classifier is able to detect ironic tweets addressed at another user as reliably as tweets that are not addressed at a particular person.

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Electronic Cigarette Users' Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Observational Study Using Twitter Data (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.24859 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yankun Gao ◽

Zidian Xie ◽

Dongmei Li

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Topic Modeling ◽

Viral Infections ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

Electronic Cigarette ◽

Twitter Data ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Twitter Users ◽

Public Health Practitioners

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) users might be more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection and could develop more severe symptoms if they contract the disease owing to their impaired immune responses to viral infections. Social media platforms such as Twitter have been widely used by individuals worldwide to express their responses to the current COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to examine the longitudinal changes in the attitudes of Twitter users who used e-cigarettes toward the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as compare differences in attitudes between e-cigarette users and nonusers based on Twitter data. METHODS The study dataset containing COVID-19–related Twitter posts (tweets) posted between March 5 and April 3, 2020, was collected using a Twitter streaming application programming interface with COVID-19–related keywords. Twitter users were classified into two groups: Ecig group, including users who did not have commercial accounts but posted e-cigarette–related tweets between May 2019 and August 2019, and non-Ecig group, including users who did not post any e-cigarette–related tweets. Sentiment analysis was performed to compare sentiment scores towards the COVID-19 pandemic between both groups and determine whether the sentiment expressed was positive, negative, or neutral. Topic modeling was performed to compare the main topics discussed between the groups. RESULTS The US COVID-19 dataset consisted of 4,500,248 COVID-19–related tweets collected from 187,399 unique Twitter users in the Ecig group and 11,479,773 COVID-19–related tweets collected from 2,511,659 unique Twitter users in the non-Ecig group. Sentiment analysis showed that Ecig group users had more negative sentiment scores than non-Ecig group users. Results from topic modeling indicated that Ecig group users had more concerns about deaths due to COVID-19, whereas non-Ecig group users cared more about the government’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSIONS Our findings show that Twitter users who tweeted about e-cigarettes had more concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings can inform public health practitioners to use social media platforms such as Twitter for timely monitoring of public responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and educating and encouraging current e-cigarette users to quit vaping to minimize the risks associated with COVID-19.

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Analysis of User Sentiment of Twitter to Draft KUHP

Jurnal Matematika Statistika dan Komputasi ◽

10.20956/jmsk.v16i3.8239 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 273

Author(s):

Nawang Indah Cahyaningrum ◽

Danty Welmin Yoshida Fatima ◽

Wisnu Adi Kusuma ◽

Sekar Ayu Ramadhani ◽

Muhammad Rizqi Destanto ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Text Mining ◽

Sentiment Analysis ◽

The Other ◽

Mining Methods ◽

Twitter Users ◽

Negative Sentiment ◽

Bahasa Indonesia

Twitter is one of social media where its user can share many responses for a phenomenon through a tweet. This research used 5000 tweets from Twitter users in Bahasa Indonesia with keyword “RUU KUHP(Draft Law of KUHP)” from 16th of September until 22nd of September 2019. That tweets were processed using Rstudio software with sentiment analysis that is one of Text Mining methods. This research aims to classify Twitter users’ responses to RUU KUHP to be negative sentiment, poisitive negative, and neutral. Also, this research also aims to know about topics’ frequencies that were related to RUU KUHP through visualization with bar plot and also wordcloud. This research also aims to know words that are associated with the most frequent words. Form this research, can be known that Twitter users’ responses to RUU KUHP tend to have neutral sentiment that means they did not take side between agreeing or disagreeing. From this research, also can be known about 10 most frequent words, there are kpk, tunda, dpr, pasal, kesal, jokowi, presiden, masuk, ya, and sahkan. Beside that, can be known the other words that are associated with them and also their probability.

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