"I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper" -- A Balanced Survey on Election Prediction using Twitter Data

Understand

Predicting X from Twitter is a popular fad within the Twitter research subculture.

• It seems both appealing and relatively easy.
• Among such kind of studies, electoral prediction is maybe the most attractive, and at this moment there is a growing body of literature on such a topic.
• This is not only an interesting research problem but, above all, it is extremely difficult.