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International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
Print ISSN: 2395-1990 | Online ISSN : 2394-4099 (www.ijsrset.com)
doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRSET2310281
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Twitter Sentiment Analysis using Machine Learning
G. Manikandan, M. Robinson Joel, S. Lidiya Jones Raj, D. Madlin Jency
Department of Information Technology, Kings Engineering College, Chennai, India
A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T
Article History:
Accepted: 05 April 2023
Published: 27 April 2023
Social media makes it easier for people to communicate with one another
online. Social media encompasses a wide range of applications and platforms,
including Facebook for entertainment, Instagram for youth, Twitter for
social and political, and YouTube, that let users share information,
communicate online, and create communities. More than 4.7 billion
individuals, or nearly 60% of the world's population, utilise social media.
Twitter is a popular social media platform where users may express their
feelings and opinions. In order to determine user sentiments, this Twitter
sentiment analysis study uses sentiment analysis to data from tweets on the
social media site. A whole new set of problems, such as the usage of slang
and acronyms, are brought about by the relatively small size of the tweet
format. Our objective is to carry out research on Twitter sentiment analysis
while outlining the methodology, models, and generalised Python-based
approach that was employed.
Keywords: Classification, Data Preprocessing, Machine Learning, Sentiment
Analysis.
Publication Issue
Volume 10, Issue 2
March-April-2023
Page Number
665-669
I. INTRODUCTION
Users of the social networking site Twitter can submit
tweets, which are brief communications that can have
a maximum character count of 280. Users can follow
other users, and a chronological feed will display all of
their tweets. Since its founding in 2006, Twitter has
developed into one of the most widely used social
media networks worldwide. Utilizing hashtags to
categorise tweets and increase their discoverability by
other users is one of Twitter's distinctive features. The
pound symbol (#) is used to form hashtags, which are
then followed by a word or phrase. It's simple to share
and interact with material on Twitter since users may
retweet, reply to, and also like other users' tweets.
Twitter has developed into a potent tool for
exchanging information and facilitating
communication, especially during political campaigns
and breaking news events. Politicians and journalists
frequently use Twitter to disseminate information and
interact in real time with their audiences. Twitter has
also been used to coordinate social movements and
demonstrations, like Black Lives Matter and the Arab
Spring. Twitter has still come under fire for its part in
disseminating false information and hate speech. The
platform has responded to these problems by enacting
rules to identify and delete deceptive information and
by banning users who breach its terms of service.
Despite these initiatives, Twitter still has a difficult