... the interplay between social media dynamics and Pakistan’s political landscape. The proposed hybrid model combines supervised machine learning and deep learning for Twitter-based text classification to assess political perceptions. A total of 52,067 tweets were analyzed and categorized into eight emotion groups...

...Umair Ahmed; Muhammad Saeed; Shah Jamal Alam Purpose This paper aims to explore the use and impact of social media, specifically Twitter (now X), in political mobilization in Pakistan. It focuses on the events followed by the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan as Pakistan’s prime minister...

...Syeda Hina Batool; Wasim Ahmed; Khalid Mahmood; Ashraf Sharif Purpose The use of social media has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media platforms provide opportunities to share news, ideas and personal stories. Twitter is used by citizens in Pakistan to respond and comment...

...Ruchi Mittal; Wasim Ahmed; Amit Mittal; Ishan Aggarwal Purpose Using data from Twitter, the purpose of this paper is to assess the coping behaviour and reactions of social media users in response to the initial days of the COVID-19-related lockdown in different parts of the world. Design...

...Syeda Hina Batool; Wasim Ahmed; Khalid Mahmood; Henna Saeed Purpose The use of Twitter by political parties and politicians has been well studied in developed countries. However, there is a lack of empirical work, which has examined the use of Twitter in developing countries. This study aims...

...Nasser Assery; Yuan (Dorothy) Xiaohong; Qu Xiuli; Roy Kaushik; Sultan Almalki Purpose This study aims to propose an unsupervised learning model to evaluate the credibility of disaster-related Twitter data and present a performance comparison with commonly used supervised machine learning models...

...Shaoyu Ye; Kevin K.W. Ho; Andre Zerbe Purpose This study aims to clarify the effects of different patterns of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram usage on user loneliness and well-being in Japan. Design/methodology/approach Based on responses to a self-report questionnaire in Japan, 155 university...

...Aysun Bozanta; Birgul Kutlu Purpose The purpose of this study is to figure out the visiting behaviors of the users who have different characteristics on Twitter. Design/methodology/approach The visit history of users who share their Foursquare check-ins on Twitter and the characteristics...

... Magazine. A strategy is proposed to mine a collection of university data obtained from Twitter and publicly available online academic sources to compute social media metrics that approximate typical academic rankings of US universities. Design/methodology/approach The Twitter application programming...