Election Forecasts with Twitter - How 140 Characters Reflect the Political Landscape
SSRN Electronic JournalPublished 1 January 2011Open access
Andranik Tumasjan, Timm O. Sprenger, Philipp Sandner, Isabell M. Welpe
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