This dataset contains information about tweets made by Elon Musk in 2022, including, besides the tweets, its number of likes, retweets and creation date.
Elon Musk is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of around $210 billion as of October 26, 2022, Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes' real-time billionaires list. The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has completed his $44bn (£38.1bn) takeover of Twitter, according to a filing with the US government. Mr Musk tweeted "the bird is freed" and later said "let the good times roll". (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63402338) We can safely say that the billionaire's online presence has been rather controversial.
The aim of the project will be to perform a text(sentiment) analysis on the text of the tweets from the above-mentioned dataset by using Python’s nltk package or Voyant Tools. After performing several operations using the specified tools the dataset should contain: Tweets: original text of the tweet. Retweets: number of retweets of the current tweet. Likes: number of likes of the current tweet. Date: date of creation of the tweet. Cleaned_tweets: text of the tweet after removing 'RT', hashtags, hyperlinks, mentions, emojis, leading and trailing whitespaces.