{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/political-popularity-analysis-in-social-media","title":"Political Popularity Analysis in Social Media","arxiv_id":"1812.03258","date":"2018-12-08","proceeding":null,"authors":["Amir Karami","Aida Elkouri"],"abstract":"Popularity is a critical success factor for a politician and her/his party to\nwin in elections and implement their plans. Finding the reasons behind the\npopularity can provide a stable political movement. This research attempts to\nmeasure popularity in Twitter using a mixed method. In recent years, Twitter\ndata has provided an excellent opportunity for exploring public opinions by\nanalyzing a large number of tweets. This study has collected and examined 4.5\nmillion tweets related to a US politician, Senator Bernie Sanders. This study\ninvestigated eight economic reasons behind the senator's popularity in Twitter.\nThis research has benefits for politicians, informatics experts, and\npolicymakers to explore public opinion. The collected data will also be\navailable for further investigation.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03258v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.03258v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"political-popularity-analysis-in-social-media","repo_url":"https://github.com/amir-karami/Sanders-Tweets-Data","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}