A Small Survey On Event Detection Using Twitter

This is evident from popular phenomena such as effects of fake news and online social movements. However the the data obtained from social media presents itself with large volume and velocity, accompanied by significant amount of irrelevant data pertaining to general discussions, personal messages and spam. Social media has been shown to be effective for detecting, forecasting and tracking real world events. The ability to detect real world events is crucial and has applications in disease surveillance, commerce, governance and other areas. Thus extraction of useful information and modelling the characteristics of social media to detect real world events is an important problem. 2 RESEARCH PROBLEM To outline the research problem we need to define events, which has multiple interpretations.