Twitter Predicts Box Office Results 44
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.'"
Less Than Three Days Old (Score:4, Funny)
Re:this story is a dupe. (Score:5, Funny)
'We saw it last week.'
As predicted by Twitter, believe it or not!
Re:Amazing ... Not! (Score:2, Funny)
This is just another attempt at justifying all the wasted electrons used for this social media sh!t.
...he said by posting a peer rated comment on a community updated news blog.
In other news, sheep go "bah"... (Score:3, Funny)