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Twitter Predicts Box Office Results

Posted by samzenpus on from the tweet-to-the-bank dept.

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.'"

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  1. Amazing ... Not! by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seeing people posting about what they're doing does not predict what they are doing, it documents it. This is just another attempt at justifying all the wasted electrons used for this social media sh!t.

    BTW, after seeing all the posts online about how many people hate the iPad even before it came out should have predicted it wouldn't sell at all - even though it seems to have sold pretty well so far. I guess their theory didn't predict that their theory failed. Oh wait, now that I've posted this it does predict it.

  2. Social computing scientist? by gorrepati · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What the hell is that?

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