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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. this story is a dupe. by Nadaka · · Score: 4, Informative

    We saw it last week.

    1. Re:this story is a dupe. by Mikkeles · · Score: 4, Funny

      'We saw it last week.'

      As predicted by Twitter, believe it or not!

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      Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
  2. Less Than Three Days Old by Reason58 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too bad we can't use Twitter to predict Slashdot dupes.

  3. 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.

  4. In other news, sheep go "bah"... by mwalleisa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gee, spamming Twitter about a movie results in herds of sheep trampling a path to the box office? Yawn.

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    If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what does your empty desk signify?
  5. Right... by djupedal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...until Hollywood learns how to game Twitter. Should be any minute now...