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Sentiment analysis conducted using multiple user comments and messages on microblogs is an interesting field of data mining and natural language processing (NLP). Different techniques and algorithms have recently been developed for conducting sentiment analysis on Twitter. Different proposed classification and pure NLP-based methods have different behaviours in predicting sentiment orientation. In this study, we combined the results of the classic classifiers and NLP-based methods to propose a new approach for Twitter sentiment analysis. The proposed method uses a fuzzy measure for determining the importance of each classifier to make the final decision. Fuzzy measures are used with the Choquet fuzzy integral for fusing the classifier outputs in order to generate the final label. 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