Sentiment in Twitter events

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 406-418

  Thelwall, Mike ^a   Buckley, Kevan ^a   Paltoglou, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROBLOGGING; NEGATIVE SENTIMENTS; SENTIMENT STRENGTHS; TIGER WOODS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 78951494937     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21462     Document Type: Article

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