A large-scale sentiment analysis of tweets pertaining to the 2020 US presidential election

Journal of Big Data

Table 1 Sentiment score of tweets per presidential candidate by groups of accounts based on when they were created

Account Created	Number of Accounts	Biden’s Sentiment Score	Trump’s Sentiment Score
Within 10 days	15,008	0.041	0.005
Within 30 days	30,047	0.081	0.015
Within 1 year	298,010	0.097	− 0.003
Within 5 years	591,881	0.112	− 0.007
Older than 5 years	1,230,902	0.129	− 0.015

All groups are exclusive and are created with respect to October 31st, 2020 (the first day of our tweet collection process)