How to Do Sentiment Analysis on a Twitter Account

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In this article, I’ll show you how to get and analyze the sentiment of tweets from a Twitter user using sentiment analysis.

“Sentiment analysis is the measurement of neutral, negative, and positive language. It is a way to evaluate spoken or written language to determine if the expression is favorable (positive), unfavorable (negative), or neutral, and to what degree.” — Clarabridge

“Sentiment analysis: the process of computationally identifying and categorizing opinions expressed in a piece of text, especially in order to determine whether the writer’s attitude towards a particular topic, product, etc. is positive, negative, or neutral.”— Oxford English Dictionary

There are many methods and algorithms to implement sentiment-analysis systems, which can be classified as:

• Rule-based systems that perform sentiment analysis based on a set of manually crafted rules
• Automatic systems that rely on machine learning techniques to learn from data
• Hybrid systems that combine both rule-based and automatic approaches