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Throwing out Arabic character tweets when analyzing Arabic Spring? #29

Open liaoandi opened 5 years ago

liaoandi commented 5 years ago

Hi, thanks for the paper. Although I know nothing about politics, I do know Twitter as I am studying it. Just a quick question, I noticed that in the notes, you mentioned that about 400,000 tweets containing Arabic character were excluded. Is there any possibility that these tweets are politically different from the rest, and might affect the final analysis? Thanks!