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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.'"
We saw it last week.
Too bad we can't use Twitter to predict Slashdot dupes.
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.
Gee, spamming Twitter about a movie results in herds of sheep trampling a path to the box office? Yawn.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what does your empty desk signify?
...until Hollywood learns how to game Twitter. Should be any minute now...
What the hell is that?
You will never have experience until after you needed it.
what happened to ang lee's hulk, to the point where the movie corp wanted all mobile phones banned from showings of said movie, for fear that negative options relayed by sms where affecting box office returns.
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm