140 characters to victory?: Using Twitter to predict the UK 2015 General Election

Electoral Studies

Volumn 41, Issue , 2016, Pages 230-233

  Burnap, Pete ^a   Gibson, Rachel ^b   Sloan, Luke ^c   Southern, Rosalynd ^b   Williams, Matthew ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Election; Forecasting; Sentiment analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; FORECASTING METHOD; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84949920963     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2015.11.017     Document Type: Article

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