Internet of Things and Social Media: A review of Literature and Validation from Twitter Analytics

In today's Era, we are associated with the Internet of Things (IoTs) by some means every time. One broad use of IoTs devices like a smartphone which is utilized for each segment of people. People are using IoT devices either by knowing that they are using or either unconsciously. At the same time, the research related to IoT is also growing at an accelerated rate which leads to asking questions like how much people are aware of IoTs that they are using every day. How much are academic research on the IoT, and Social media matured? This paper presents a comparative analysis of findings from the research on IoT & Social media and from the public talks on IoT on Social Media. We have used the Social media analytics framework for analyzing the data collected from Twitter. Our findings suggest that academic research is more focused on technical aspects of IoT artifacts, while public talks are more towards the use of IoT in different sectors like healthcare, artificial intelligence, etc.