Sentiment Analysis of User Reviews of TikTok App on Google Play Store Using Naïve Bayes Algorithm
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https://doi.org/10.64021/ijmst.1.2.58-64.2025Keywords:
Google Play Store, sentiment analysis, TikTok, Naïve BayesAbstract
In recent years, user interaction through mobile applications has grown rapidly, making user reviews an important source of feedback for improving service quality. This study explores sentiment analysis on 5,000 user reviews of the TikTok application, collected from the Google Play Store using the google-play-scraper library. The data underwent several preprocessing steps, such as case folding, text cleaning, and selecting relevant columns like review content and rating score. Sentiment labeling was based on rating values: scores of 4 and 5 were treated as positive, while scores of 1 and 2 were considered negative. From the results, it was observed that negative reviews appeared more frequently, indicating an imbalance in the dataset. Despite this, the Naïve Bayes classification algorithm still achieved a reasonably good performance in categorizing the sentiments. These findings suggest that even with simple models, valuable insights can be gained from user-generated content. Moreover, the results provide meaningful input for TikTok developers to better understand user concerns and emphasize the potential need for applying balancing techniques in future analysis. Further studies are encouraged to explore other algorithms that may improve sentiment classification accuracy on more complex datasets.
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