Tweets mining for French Presidential Election

This paper describes a system which surveys the French Presidential Election trends from Twitter´s discussions. This system carries out the automatic collection, evaluation and rating of tweets for evaluating the trends. The objective of this paper is to discuss the variety of issues and challenges surrounding the perspectives regarding the use of Social Network Analyses and Text Mining methods for applications in politics. The article will first present a review of the literature in Social Media and Text Mining analysis for political purposes and then describe the work done for our system for collecting and manipulating Twitter´s data.