Social Network Hashtag Analysis for the 75th Year of India’s Independence

The social media platform Twitter is all about what’s happening in the world. Twitter has been the core of spread of information when compared with other social media platforms. Anything and everything break open on twitter first before it reaches the other social media platforms, it is unlike any other and everything can be found in one place (Yum in Soc Sci Q 101(4):1642–1647, 2020; Mishra et al. in 2016 International conference on information technology (InCITe)—the next generation IT summit on the theme—internet of things: connect your worlds, pp 148–153, 2016). It is observed that people turn to twitter users first when they want to know something. This study explores how the influential twitter users play a crucial role in social networks. This study aimed to analyze the hashtag of the 75th year of Indian Independence tweets using social network analysis (SNA). SNA techniques are performed to measure certain centrality measures and plot their graphs to find the most influential user in the network. Sentiment analysis is performed on the dataset to determine the positive and negative emotions surrounding the 75th year of Indian Independence.