A short message classification algorithm for tweet classification

Abstract

Twitter users tweet their views in the form of short text messages. Twitter topic classification is classifying the tweets in to a set of predefined classes. In this work, a new tweet classification Method that makes use of tweet features like URL's in the tweet, retweeted tweets and influential users tweet is proposed. Experiments were carried out with extensive tweet data set. The performance of the proposed algorithm in classifying the tweets was compared with the text classification algorithms like SVM, Naïve Bayes, KNN etc. It is observed that the proposed method outclasses the conventional text classification algorithms in classifying the tweets.