Leveraging candidate popularity on Twitter to predict election outcome
Manish Gaurav, Amit Kumar Srivastava, Anoop Kumar, Scott N. Miller · 2013
In recent years, Twitter has become one of the most important modes for social networking and disseminating content on a variety of topics. It has developed into a popular medium for political discourse and social organization during elections. There has been growing body of literature demonstrating the ability to predict the outcome of elections from Twitter data.