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From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series
journal contribution
posted on 2006-02-01, 00:00 authored by Brendan O'Connor, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Bryan R Routledge, Noah A. SmithWe connect measures of public opinion measured from
polls with sentiment measured from text. We analyze
several surveys on consumer confidence and political
opinion over the 2008 to 2009 period, and find they
correlate to sentiment word frequencies in contemporaneous
Twitter messages. While our results vary across
datasets, in several cases the correlations are as high as
80%, and capture important large-scale trends. The results
highlight the potential of text streams as a substitute
and supplement for traditional polling.