Abstract:
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Depression is a common illness that affects millions of people. It affects people knowingly or
unknowingly to people all over the world. (Dinkel, Wu and Yu, 2020) Social media provides a
platform for individuals to express their thoughts and feelings with others. This makes online
social media platforms gather large amounts of data about the users. This information can be
used to develop software that can be used to help people in many ways such as detecting
mental health problems. (Abed-Esfahani et al., no date). Twitter is a great platform to identify
the thoughts of an individual and since Twitter has the largest number of users among
microblogs. (Fuji and Matsumoto, no date) to identify if the person is suffering from depression
based on the tweets the user’s tweet on Twitter LSTM (Long short term memory) can be used
since LSTM is used for tasks such as natural language processing.(Verma et al., 2020)"
