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by joeblau 78 days ago
We used this in 2011 at the startup I worked for. 20 positive and 20 negative words was good enough to sell Twitter "sentiment analysis" to companies like Apple, Bentley, etc...
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Did you also forget to ignore case sensitivity back then?
the string is lowercased before the regex is run, fwiw
Smart, that way they will never know when you're shouting at them.