Twitter as a tool for predicting elections results

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1194-1200

  Soler, Juan M ^a   Cuartero, Fernando ^a   Roblizo, Manuel ^b  

^a Instituto de Informática   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROBLOGGING; POLITICAL PARTIES; SHORT MESSAGE; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874274917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2012.206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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