How did Twitter react to Netflix’s hit series — Squid Game?

Using Data Science techniques to uncover the series’ most popular characters and episodes

fylim
3 min readOct 8, 2021

Netflix’s latest Korean drama ‘Squid Game’ has taken over the internet and worldwide fans are loving the violent and thrilling storyline of the series.

With the Squid Game buzz going on on Twitter, Tik Tok, Instagram, etc., I decided to use Data Science (Natual Language Processing) to analyze and find out what people are most interested in this Korean drama.

Analyzing 5000 tweets with the hashtag #squidgame

In this article, we will be using 4,984 tweets with the hashtag #squidgame for analysis.

Common words such as “the”, “that” have been removed from the dataset so only meaningful keywords are left for analysis.

Popular words related to #squidgame tweets

The word cloud below shows the top 30 most frequently used words. Each of the words has appeared at least 10 times in the extracted tweets.

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