We examine the relationship between signals derived from unstructured social media microblog text data and financial market developments. Employing statistical language modeling techniques we construct directional user sentiment and non-directional topic disagreement metrics and link these to...

We examine the long-term relationship between signals derived from nine years of unstructured social media microblog text data and financial market developments in five major economic regions. Employing statistical language modeling techniques we construct directional sentiment metrics and link...