Various studies on sentiment classification of documents have been performed. Recently, they have been applied to twitter sentiment classification. However, they did not show good performances because they did not consider the characteristics of tweets such as tweet structure, emoticons, spelling errors, and newly-coined words. In this paper, we perform experiments on various input features (emoticon polarity, retweet polarity, author polarity, and replacement words) which affect twitter sentiment classification model based on machine-learning techniques. In the experiments with a sentiment classification model based on a support vector machine, we found that the emoticon polarity features and the author polarity features can contribute to improve the performance of a twitter sentiment classification model. Then, we found that the retweet polarity features and the replacement words features do not affect the performance of a twitter sentiment classification model contrary to our expectations.