Predicting the 2011 Dutch Senate Election Results with Twitter

By Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang, Johan Bos. 2012

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On Unravelling Opinions of Issue Specific-Silent Users in Social Media (2016, background): “…in 2009 (Tumasjan et al. 2010), US Senate special Election in Massachusetts 2010 (Chung and Mustafaraj 2011), Dutch Senate Election in 2011 (Sang and Bos 2012), Irish General Election in 2011 (Bermingham and Smeaton 2011) and French Presidential and Legislative Elections in 2012 (Ceron et…”
Every tweet counts? How sentiment analysis of social media can improve our knowledge of citizens’ political preferences with an application to Italy and France (2013, background): “Scholars have recently begun to investigate the use of social media as a device to forecast elections (Tjong and Bos, 2012), assess the popularity of politicians (Gloor et al., 2009), and compare the political preferences that citizens express online with those captured using traditional polls…”