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Twitter Predicts Box Office Results
netjockey2 writes "In a study published by HP entitled 'Predicting the future with Social Media,' researchers Sitaram Asur and Bernardo A. Huberman 'demonstrate how the content of social networks can be used to predict events in the real world.' In particular, they say they are 'using threads from Twitter.com to predict box office revenues of films.'"
Too bad we can't use Twitter to predict Slashdot dupes.
'We saw it last week.'
As predicted by Twitter, believe it or not!
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
This is just another attempt at justifying all the wasted electrons used for this social media sh!t.
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Gee, spamming Twitter about a movie results in herds of sheep trampling a path to the box office? Yawn.
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