Why the pirate party won the german election of 2009 or the trouble with predictions: A response to tumasjan, A., sprenger, T. O., sander, P. G., & welpe, I. M. "predicting elections with twitter: What 140 characters reveal about political sentiment"

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 229-234

  Jungherr, Andreas ^a   Jürgens, Pascal ^b   Schoen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

computational social science; elections; predictions; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860196341     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439311404119     Document Type: Article

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