Twitter based TV Rating Analysis with TV-viewing and Sentiment Analysis

Abstract

Social Media is now used as a back channel to TV programs by viewers who would like to express their opinion about watching programs or just simply put on records of TV viewing. TV viewing rate is a critical indicator regarding the popularity of programs.Now a day’s social media is generally used to gather crowd sentiments to gather this information. Current methodologies based on Neilsen TV ratings adopt small sample group for the same. This approach saves cost, time as well as give s preliminary information. But it fails to bring out the actual sentiments on the real time samples. Our work proposes to use social media typically twitter to gather real time crowd sentiments regarding different TV shows and compute TRP based on type number etc. giving descriptive analysis.Keywords: Television rating point, micro-blogging, sentiment analysis