Twitter-based election prediction in the developing world

HT 2015 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 149-158

  Prasetyo, Nugroho Dwi ^a   Hauff, Claudia ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Election forecasting; Microblogs; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FORECASTING; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

DEVELOPING WORLD; INDONESIA; MICROBLOGS; NATIONAL LEVEL; POLITICAL PARTIES; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; TWITTER; USER ACTIVITY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84957006911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2700171.2791033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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