Ahead of the 2014 elections would be interesting to predict which candidate will hold the highest authority in the Republic of Indonesia. Entering the 2014 presidential election there is no infidelity tendency of voters who initially settled on a party or a candidate then choose another party or candidate in the next election. Changes in the tendency to make the condition of society in a state that has not been to given the choice of a candidate is commonly called swing voters. On this occasion, an examination of the swing voters who use social media twitter. By utilizing the advanced search facility to collect data from the response of tweeps (twitter users) on the twitter to Indonesian presidential candidate. The data will be used to describe how much the popularity of a candidate among tweeps, knowing the candidates who have the largest positive response and negative response, as well as the growing popularity of the candidate. The data is expected to predict the RI presidential candidate in 2014.

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