Study explores rumor spread on Twitter using supervised learning.
problem Rumors spread quickly on social networks, affecting decision-making.
method Microscopic-level analysis of user interactions and features.
result Models predict rumor diffusion with 90% accuracy.
Kernel analysis reveals rumor truth from diffusion patterns alone.
problem Detecting unverified rumors on Twitter using text and user identities.
method Graph kernels to extract diffusion patterns from Twitter cascade structures.
result Diffusion patterns are highly informative of rumor truth or falsehood.
Efficiently estimates Hawkes process kernels using non-parametric Bayesian methods.
problem Estimating flexible Hawkes process kernels with uncertainty quantification.
method Cluster representation of Hawkes processes, Gibbs sampling, expectation maximization.
result Linear time complexity in both theoretical and empirical settings.
In this paper, we propose a modified Levy jump diffusion model with market sentiment memory for stock prices, where the market sentiment comes from data mining implementation using Tweets on Twitter. We take the market sentiment process, which has memory, as the signal of Levy jumps in the stock price. An online learni…
Information diffusion in online social networks is affected by the underlying network topology, but it also has the power to change it. Online users are constantly creating new links when exposed to new information sources, and in turn these links are alternating the way information spreads. However, these two highly i…
Twitter provides an open and rich source of data for studying human behaviour at scale and is widely used in social and network sciences. However, a major criticism of Twitter data is that demographic information is largely absent. Enhancing Twitter data with user ages would advance our ability to study social network …
This study uses Twitter to analyze traveler behavior in Manhattan.
problem Analyzing traveler behavior using social media data.
method Systematic method to extract displacement information from geo-tagged tweets.
result Twitter reveals unique demographics and travel behavior patterns.
Twitter promotes cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps, affecting trading behavior and returns.
problem The influence of Twitter on cryptocurrency pump-and-dump events.
method Analysis of abnormal returns, trading volume, and tweet activity.
result Investors relying on Twitter information sell later, leading to significant losses.
In online social media systems users are not only posting, consuming, and resharing content, but also creating new and destroying existing connections in the underlying social network. While each of these two types of dynamics has individually been studied in the past, much less is known about the connection between th…
Influential node detection is a central research topic in social network analysis. Many existing methods rely on the assumption that the network structure is completely known \textit{a priori}. However, in many applications, network structure is unavailable to explain the underlying information diffusion phenomenon. To…
Research shows Twitter is permeable to financial events, influencing its content and sentiment.
problem Investigating how Twitter reacts to financial events.
method Conducted experiments on a specific financial event (Tesco PLC and Booker Group PLC merger announcement).
result Twitter is permeable to financial events, affecting its content and sentiment.
Twitter has been proven to be a notable source for predictive modelling on various domains such as the stock market, the dissemination of diseases or sports outcomes. However, such a study has not been conducted in football (soccer) so far. The purpose of this research was to study whether data mined from Twitter can b…
Twitter releases dataset to study user engagement on Home Timeline, focusing on privacy.
problem Limited exploration of user feedback on Twitter's Home Timeline.
method Release of a large-scale dataset of 160 million Tweets with engagement information.
result Demonstrates challenges in predicting user engagements and privacy concerns.
The problem of predicting the location of users on large social networks like Twitter has emerged from real-life applications such as social unrest detection and online marketing. Twitter user geolocation is a difficult and active research topic with a vast literature. Most of the proposed methods follow either a conte…
TIMME detects Twitter users' ideology from sparse, heterogeneous data.
problem Predicting political tendencies from Twitter data.
method TIMME, a multi-task multi-relational embedding model.
result TIMME outperforms state-of-the-art models for ideology detection.
This study seeks to validate a search protocol of ill health-related terms using Twitter data which can later be used to understand if, and how, Twitter can reveal information on the current health situation. We extracted conversations related to health and disease postings on Twitter using a set of pre-defined keyword…
Twitter has provided a great opportunity for public libraries to disseminate information for a variety of purposes. Twitter data have been applied in different domains such as health, politics, and history. There are thousands of public libraries in the US, but no study has yet investigated the content of their social …
ED-Filter improves eating disorder classification on Twitter.
problem High dimensionality and extensive feature sets in Twitter data for ED classification.
method Informed branch and bound search technique with hybrid greedy-based deep learning.
result Significant improvements in classification accuracy and efficiency.
Study enhances cryptocurrency sentiment analysis using TikTok and Twitter data.
problem Lack of comprehensive sentiment analysis in cryptocurrency markets.
method Multimodal analysis of TikTok and Twitter data using large language models.
result TikTok's video sentiment influences speculative assets and short-term trends.
Study uses deep learning to predict gender and analyze HPV vaccine perceptions on Twitter.
problem Analyzing gender differences in public perceptions on HPV vaccine using social media data.
method Convolutional neural network model trained on Twitter text for gender prediction, then applied to HPV vaccine related tweets.
result Identified gender differences in public perceptions on HPV vaccine, consistent with previous studies.
This paper examines feature selection for extracting user intentions from Twitter.
problem Extracting user intentions from informal, misspelled tweets.
method Developed a dataset from Twitter feeds, used two feature selection techniques (Information Gain and hybrid forward selection), and applied four classification algorithms.
result The hybrid feature selection approach outperformed the Information Gain method.
Crowdsourced algorithms identify fake news on Twitter.
problem Identifying fake news on social media platforms.
method Evaluation of reputation algorithms on a large dataset of Twitter news.
result Simple crowdsourcing-based algorithms can identify a significant portion of fake news with low false positive rates.
Twitter uses embedding models to maintain model performance despite covariate shift.
problem Model staleness due to covariate shift in Twitter data.
method Employ learned features (embedding models) to represent relevant aspects of the data distribution.
result Embedding models reduce staleness and maintain model performance.
Study examines perceptions and attitudes about breast cancer on Twitter.
problem Understanding public perceptions and attitudes towards breast cancer on social media.
method Identified and collected tweets, used topic modeling and sentiment analysis.
result Identified themes and quantified users' perceptions and emotions about breast cancer.
Study shows frequent 'stock' mentions on Twitter correlate with stock market declines.
problem Understanding how social media impacts financial markets during pandemics.
method Collected over 26 million tweets about COVID-19, analyzed using natural language processing.
result More frequent use of 'stock' in tweets predicts substantial declines in stock market indices.
Study analyzes online abuse against women journalists and politicians on Twitter.
problem Online abuse against women journalists and politicians on Twitter.
method Crowdsourced analysis of a curated dataset of labeled tweets, accounting for variability in abuse perception.
result Technical backbone for raising awareness and improving social media standards.
This paper studies users' perception regarding a controversial product, namely self-driving (autonomous) cars. To find people's opinion regarding this new technology, we used an annotated Twitter dataset, and extracted the topics in positive and negative tweets using an unsupervised, probabilistic model known as topic …
Study finds Twitter activity correlates with stock volatility but not sentiment.
problem Understanding the impact of social media on stock market dynamics.
method Collected and analyzed tweets from Twitter and Reddit, examining their sentiment and correlation with stock volatility.
result Twitter activity correlates with stock volatility but not sentiment.
This paper covers the two approaches for sentiment analysis: i) lexicon based method; ii) machine learning method. We describe several techniques to implement these approaches and discuss how they can be adopted for sentiment classification of Twitter messages. We present a comparative study of different lexicon combin…
Study analyzes IMDB movie comments and Twitter data using machine learning and vector space techniques.
problem Sentiment analysis of IMDB movie comments and Twitter data.
method Created a vector space in KNIME Analytics platform, used Decision Trees, Naïve Bayes, and SVM algorithms for classification.
result SVM algorithm provided the best classification results for both IMDB movie comments and Twitter data sets.
Twitmo analyzes geo-tagged Twitter data for topic modeling and visualization.
problem Analyzing public discourse on Twitter for various topics, parties, or individuals.
method Collects and preprocesses geo-tagged Tweets, applies LDA, CTM, STM, and visualizes results.
result Automatic pooling of Tweets into pseudo-documents improves topic coherence.
This paper presents a financial analysis over Twitter sentiment analytics extracted from listed retail brands. We investigate whether there is statistically-significant information between the Twitter sentiment and volume, and stock returns and volatility. Traditional newswires are also considered as a proxy for the ma…
Study uses machine learning to detect depression in Twitter users.
problem Detecting depression in Twitter users using social media data.
method Machine learning techniques applied to Twitter activity and tweet features.
result More features improve accuracy in detecting depressed users.
Social media services such as Twitter are a valuable source of information for decision support systems. Many studies have shown that this also holds for the medical domain, where Twitter is considered a viable tool for public health officials to sift through relevant information for the early detection, management, an…
Deep neural networks detect cyberthreats from Twitter.
problem Scalable processing of cybersecurity information from social media.
method Convolutional and bidirectional LSTM networks for tweet classification and named entity recognition.
result Pipeline achieves high true positive and F1-score rates for threat detection.
Study uses machine learning to analyze Twitter sentiments about COVID-19.
problem Examining public concerns and sentiments about COVID-19 from Twitter.
method Machine learning (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to identify topics and sentiments.
result Identified 13 topics and categorized into five themes, revealing dominant fears and mixed feelings.
Paper introduces score embedding for Twitter sentiment analysis of health care issues.
problem Analyzing public opinion on health care plans using social media.
method Score embedding, a neural network model for word representations.
result Score embedding effectively captures sentiment and outperforms existing methods.
ChatGPT predicts stock trends from Twitter sentiment, showing positive effects.
problem Predicting stock market trends using social media sentiment.
method Used ChatGPT for sentiment analysis of Twitter posts about Microsoft and Google.
result ChatGPT's predictions correlated positively with stock performance.
Deep learning models predict financial market trends from social media leaders.
problem Predicting financial market trends using social media data.
method Deep learning models trained on NLP analysis of leaders' Twitter handles.
result Substantial improvement in financial market prediction accuracy.
Paper proposes CBPT for early depression detection on Twitter.
problem Early detection of depression on social media.
method Cost-sensitive Boosting Pruning Trees (CBPT) for depression detection.
result CBPT achieves strong classification results on multiple datasets.
Predicts Bitcoin price using Twitter sentiment analysis.
problem Volatility and varied opinions in cryptocurrency markets.
method Developed a model combining sentiment analysis of tweets and historical price data.
result Sentiment prediction MAPE of 9.45%, price prediction MAPE of 3.6%
In this paper we describe our attempt at producing a state-of-the-art Twitter sentiment classifier using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTMs) networks. Our system leverages a large amount of unlabeled data to pre-train word embeddings. We then use a subset of the unlabeled data to fin…
Research proposes classifiers to distinguish tweets with conflicting cashtags.
problem Cryptocurrency cashtags interfere with stock company cashtags on Twitter.
method Heuristic and supervised classifiers analyzed for distinguishing tweets.
result Independent Models perform best in distinguishing tweets with conflicting cashtags.
Study shows Twitter sentiments predict stock price fluctuations.
problem Predicting stock prices using public opinions.
method Time series analysis and natural language processing with LSTM model.
result Positive, negative, and subjective sentiments correlate with stock price changes.
Framework detects cyber threats from Twitter tweets.
problem Time-consuming manual extraction of cyber threat intelligence.
method Novelty detection model trained on CVE data.
result F1-score of 0.643 for classifying cyber threat tweets.
Research uses Twitter data to analyze public perception of city logistics.
problem Understanding public views on city logistics from multiple stakeholders.
method Collecting Twitter content, applying unsupervised learning and NLP.
result Built an Interest Map and determined sentiment of city logistics entries.
Simple model classifies traffic tweets from Twitter using word embeddings.
problem Sparsity and curse of dimensionality in bag-of-words representation for traffic tweets.
method Proposes a word embedding-based framework to classify traffic-related tweets from non-traffic ones.
result State-of-the-art test accuracy of 95.9% achieved with a simple model.
Taureau uses Twitter sentiment analysis to predict stock market movement.
problem Predicting stock market movement using public opinion on Twitter.
method Obtained historical tweets, filtered and labeled, generated word embeddings, assessed sentiment scores, correlated with stock price movement, designed and evaluated predictive model.
result Taureau can predict stock price movement from lagged sentiment scores.