In
recent years, Web 2.0 services such as blogs, tweets, forums, emails have been
widely used as communication channel. Also, social media; it is considered to
be the easiest and most up-to-date way to both share information and express
opinions such as requests, complaints, and wishes. As in many fields, the
effect of social media on Bitcoin prices has been addressed in the last few
years.
Bitcoin
is an investment tool that has been underlined for years, and is increasing in
popularity day by day. Bitcoin, an electronic currency system that is
decentralized, states a radical change in financial systems that has attracted
many users. In this study, interaction of social media with Bitcoin price was
revealed, particularly based on tweets obtained from Twitter channel. For this
purpose, various analyses were carried out by using classification algorithms
in machine learning methods over a total of 2,819,784 tweets posted by Twitter
users between 06.10.2018-19.05.2019. When the findings were evaluated,
Artificial Neural Networks with the highest accuracy rate of 90% was used in
text classification. In addition, bilateral correlations were made with Bitcoin
prices and classified positive / negative tweet rates. The correlation
coefficient of 0.681 was found to be positively correlated with higher than
moderate strength.
Son
yıllarda, bloglar, tweet’ler, forumlar, e-postalar gibi Web 2.0 hizmetleri
iletişim kanalı olarak yaygın bir şekilde kullanılmaktadır. Ayrıca sosyal
medya; gerek bilgi paylaşımı gerekse istek, şikayet ve dilekler gibi görüşleri
belirtmenin en kolay ve en güncel yolu olarak düşünülmektedir. Sosyal medyanın,
birçok alana olduğu gibi Bitcoin fiyatlarına olan etkisi de son yıllarda
tartışılmaktadır.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Articles |
Authors | |
Publication Date | March 13, 2020 |
Acceptance Date | February 6, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 |