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.'"
Right... (Score:5, Interesting)
sounds like... (Score:3, Interesting)
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.