Sentiment analysis in microblogging as a new methodological tool

Abstract

 This study aims to show the importance of sentiment and opinion analysis in micro-blogging, especially Twitter, as a new methodological tool in studies related to social networks, and simplify the automated methods analysis.    Accordingly, this study aims to clarify the concept of sentiment analysis, to illustrate the steps and approaches of the analysis, in addition to mentioning the difficulties to study microblogging by sentiment analysis.

The study concluded that it is necessary to use sentiment and opinion analysis as an alternative methodological tool to study the phenomena associated with micro-blogging and social networks due to the results provided by automated analysis with ease and flexibility