Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters:
Sentiment Analysis and Mourning
Michael Jackson on Twitter
By Elsa Kim and Sam Gilbert
with Michael J. Edwards and Erhardt Graeff
Michael Jackson’s death created an emotional outpouring of unprecedented magnitude on Twitter. In this report, we examine 1,860,427 tweets about Jackson’s death in order to test various methods of sentiment analysis and gain insights into how people express [...]
