Mining twitter: A source for psychological wisdom of the crowds

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 635-642

  Reips, Ulf Dietrich ^a,b   Garaizar, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geolocation; Internet science; iScience maps; Microblogging; Text mining; Tweet; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA MINING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DATA MINING; HUMANS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 80052850769     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-011-0116-6     Document Type: Article

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