Twitter, public opinion, and the 2011 Nigerian Presidential election

Proceedings - SocialCom/PASSAT/BigData/EconCom/BioMedCom 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 311-320

  Fink, Clay ^a   Bos, Nathan ^a   Perrone, Alexander ^a   Liu, Edwina ^a   Kopecky, Jonathon ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nigeria; Sentiment analysis; Social media; Survey research; Twitter

Indexed keywords

NIGERIA; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURVEY RESEARCH; TWITTER;

SOCIAL ASPECTS; SURVEYS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893568611     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2013.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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