Analyzing Twitter Using Sentiment Analysis and Entity Recognition

A powerful means of communication that has grown popular in the last decade or so has been microblogging, which is the art of broadcasting short, crisp messages through the internet to a large audience. The leader of the microblogging movement has been Twitter, with millions of tweets (short messages with 140 character text messages with pictures and videos) being sent through its platform by over 300 million monthly active users. Twitter is used across the world by individuals, companies, political parties, celebrities, media, authors, and almost everyone else. The type of messages that are sent varies from mindless chatter to conversational topics to promotional content and news. Unlike traditional media, the popularity of Twitter is due to its brief and instantaneous nature, which allows people to consult or...