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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:xkcd is not funny. Please stop linking to it. by quantumplacet · · Score: 0, Troll

    you are definitely right, because humor is not subjective, and the millions of people who read and enjoy xkcd are simply wrong, while you are simply right. out of curiosity, when will you be posting the comprehensive list of what is and isn't funny so that i'll have a point of reference to check before i ever laugh at anything?