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Social Network Analysis Using Twitter Data
Rishabh Mishra
1
, Pradyumn Katre
2
, Ritesh Srivastava
3
1, 2, 3
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology
Greater Noida, India
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Abstract - Social media is a well-known platform for user
to create, share and check the new information which is
being updated on a daily basis. The world has become a
global village because of the utilization of the internet and
social media like Facebook, Twitter and various other social
media sites. These platforms have become a wide source of
growth and spreading of daily opinions related to feelings,
thoughts, and moods, and also what is going on in today's
world. Sentiment-Analysis is a combination of two words
Sentiment and Analysis. Any opinion of an individual
through which the feelings, attitude, and thoughts can be
expressed is known as sentiment. The process of recognizing
and classifying general public opinions, about any topic
expressed in any piece of text, or in social media especially in
order to determine whether the writer’s attitude towards a
particular topic, product, is negative, positive or neutral is
known as analysis. Twitter, being the most popular micro-
blogging social site is used to collect data to perform
analysis. As Twitter’s special and unique infrastructure and
almost, total availability of its data, ensured its high
popularity among researchers. Twitter is the most popular
platform, when it comes to social media research both in
academics and in industry; no other social media website has
attracted as much attention from academics or industry.
Twitter has an open infrastructure which allows any user to
follow another user, and it provides almost 100% of its data
through its API (Application Program Interface). This survey
paper briefs about studies and approaches which are being
used in on-going project of developing fact extraction
technology on social media analysis of tweeter data. This
survey paper brief about recent studies or approaches which
have been used in social media analysis using the twitter
data.
Key Words: — sentiment analysis, machine learning,
twitter, tweets, analysis abstraction.
1.INTRODUCTION
Social media is a topic which is very much relevant in
today's time, and they called social media has touched upon
almost every aspect of life whether it is personal or
professional or whether it is political, so for that matter you
are connecting with your friends on Facebook, Twitter etc. or
if you are going shopping on amazon or other shopping sites
or if you are writing an article on a political issue you are all
the time connected with social media, and we are getting to
know views or information from all these mediums [7]. Now
before we get into the details of social media, we need to
understand that what exactly is social media. Media are
instrument of commission but when we say social media it
becomes a social instrument of commission [10]. These
media have evolved from a broadcast model to a network
model. When we say broadcast model there is one person or
a group of people who are creating a message, who is
decelerating yokes to the rest of the people which means it is
from one to many kinds of model, but today we have moved
from many to many kinds of models which means from
broadcast to network model. Network model is a model
where many people are creating several messages all around
the world and giving, sharing and lighting it on social media.
We need to keep in mind that as media professionals or as
communicators whether they are in the field of management
by the themes of media or for that matter in the field of
education. We need to effectively use the sports in a very
good manner and whether we like it or not. This social media
is going to grow as people are not willing to learn, as people
are willing to share, as people are willing to comment. This
social media is going to grow and it is going to grow multiple.
Twitter, one of the most popular social media websites
went live on 21st March, 2006 [2]. It is a microblogging
website and its micro blogs are commonly known as tweets.
First tweet that was tweeted on twitter was "just setting up
my twitter.” Which was tweeted by its founder Jack Dorsey
[3].
Originally tweets were restricted to 140 characters but it’s
word limit was increased to 280 except for Chinese, Japanese
and Korean [4]. In September 2019, Twitter was ranked the
32nd most visited websites in the world by Alexa's web
traffic analysis [5]. A user can send its tweet to his or her
followers and his followers can in turn like or retweet the
tweet. All the major celebrities and famous personalities
around the world have their presence on Twitter and they
interact with their fans on Twitter [11]. Twitter is a major
trend setter in the world as what trends on Twitter trends in
the world. People can follow up or give their opinion about
the topic using the hashtags (#) followed by the topic [1].
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Twitter was the
largest source of breaking news on the day, with 40 million
election-related tweets sent by 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
that day [6].
The most interesting and popular analysis based over the
past years is the Sentiment analysis [8], [14], [16], [18]. The
opinions that are held by any number of individuals are
reviewed and analyzed using sentiment analysis [12], [19],
[21], [38]. These reviews can be related to an event, brand,
person or product. Earlier, magazines, newspapers and other