People might not be close-at-hand but they still are - by virtue of the social network. The social network has transformed lives in many ways. People can express their views, opinions and life experiences on various platforms be it Twitter, Facebook or any other medium there is. Such events constitute of reviewing a product or service, conveying views on political banters, predicting share prices or giving feedback on the government policies like Demonetization or GST. These social platforms can be used to investigate the insights of the emotional curve that the general public is generating. This kind of analysis can help make a product better, predict the future prospects and also to implement the public policies in a better way. Such kind of research on sentiment analysis is increasing rapidly. In this research paper, we have performed temporal analysis and spatial analysis on 1,42,508 and 58,613 tweets respectively and these tweets were posted during the post-GST implementation period from July 04, 2017 to July 25, 2017. The tweets were collected using the Twitter streaming API. A well-known lexicon, National Research Council Canada (NRC) emotion Lexicon is used for opinion mining that exhibits a blend of eight basic emotions i.e. joy, trust, anticipation, surprise, fear sadness, anger, disgust and two sentiments i.e. positive and negative for 6,554 words.
@cite_4: The extensive use of social media has tremendous impact on culture, business, and politics on the world at large with potentially positive and negative effects. For example, social media coverage of crisis events may be used by authorities for effective disaster management or by malicious entities to spread rumors and fake news for financial or political benefit. Considering the harmful consequences of fake news in social media, there is a profound need to detect false information, control and or prevent it from spreading. In this paper, we propose an advanced framework to identify tweets with fake news contents using techniques including statistical analysis of Twitter user account, reverse image searching, cross verification of fake news sources, and data mining. Experimental results on a large miscellaneous events dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach in identifying fake tweets.
A similar paper is @cite_4 which has presented a work that identifies fake tweets by using various features from tweets and twitter accounts.