Inproceedings,
Investigando a Influência de Tweets em Programas de Votação Popular no Brasil
IV Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining, (July 2015)
Abstract
Twitter has been used as a data source by researchers for the investigation and prediction of various aspects of human behaviour in social networks. We investigate in this work the interplay between the performance of participants of popular vote programs in Brazil and their popularity in Twitter. As study case, we collected data from Twitter about the latest editions of two popular vote programs, Superstar and Big Brother Brasil, and found out that the popularity of the participants in Twitter is an important indicator of their respective performances in these programs. Another interesting discovery is the observation that the participants who have better performances, have more positive tweets than the other competitors during the program.
