The review presented in this paper
discusses the published research in the period from January 1, 2007 to January 7, 2015. The goal of this study is to probe the
available articles with regards to: (I) the data mining techniques used to extract social media data, (II) the research area that
requires mining data from social media, (III) a comparison between machine learning and non-machine learning data mining
techniques, (IV) a comparison between different data mining techniques, and (V) the strength and weakness of the recommended
data mining techniques in social media.
This manuscript is divided into five sections. Section 2 explains the implemented methodology. Section 3 describes our
findings. Section 4 discusses the limitation of this review. Finally, Section 5 presents our findings, recommendations, and future
work.