“…In recent years, companies have paid much attention to managing relations with customers using social media (Zhang et al 2017;Jin, Liu, and Austin 2014). The data generated by social media and its potential in social media analysis have attracted a growing interest within academia, in part spurred by recent excitement over the concept of Big Data (Tse et al, 2016;Basili et al, 2017). This is at the top of the agenda for many business leaders who have sought to establish ways in which social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, can be used to improve the competitiveness of their organisations (Kaplan and Haenlein 2010).…”