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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. Re:this story is a dupe. by teslar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ah, but now there is an obligatory xkcd for it. Surely this counts as re-posting a story due to recent changes in circumstances? ;)