Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.22522/cmr20210272
Sentiment Analysis of President Trump’s Tweets: From Winning the Election to the Fight against COVID-19
Mihael Kampić
; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
Marina Bagić Babac
orcid.org/0000-0003-4979-2216
; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
Abstract
Twitter, as one of the popular social networks today and big data generator, can affect and change the
public discourse, so political candidates are using it extensively as the vehicle for attracting and keeping their followers. Since Donald Trump's 2016 presidency election, his Twitter account with millions of
followers has become an important subject for various statistical analyses, mostly because of his controversy. Therefore, this paper uses sentiment analysis of a large set of his tweets to explore his influence, as
well the set of affective and cognitive aspects of his messages. The results of this analysis indicate what
kind of findings in political domain can be recognized from tweets, and how they can be interpreted.
Keywords
social media; sentiment analysis; sentiment lexicon; President Trump; Twitter; tweets
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270155
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Publication date:
31.12.2021.
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