Are twitter users equal in predicting elections? A study of user groups in predicting 2012 U.S. republican presidential primaries

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7710, Issue , 2012, Pages 379-392

  Chen, Lu ^a   Wang, Wenbo ^a   Sheth, Amit P ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Content Type; Electoral Prediction; Engagement Degree; Political Preference; Social Intelligence; Tweet Mode; Twitter Analytics; User Categorization

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONTENT TYPE; ENGAGEMENT DEGREE; POLITICAL PREFERENCE; SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE; TWEET MODE; TWITTER ANALYTICS; USER CATEGORIZATION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84962463308     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35386-4_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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