Twitter is known as a platform for opinion sharing through posting tweets, retweeting, or liking tweets. As such, I used VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary for sEntiment Reasoning) to perform sentiment analysis on texts gathered from Twitter. VADER is a simple rule-based model that was created specifically for sentiment analysis on social media. This is because it takes slangs, short words and emoticons into account.
Further information about the project can be read here.