Twitter has the power. Market researchers have been using the rate at which tweets are produced to estimate cinema takings of newly released films, and have seemingly been getting some pretty accurate results.
I wonder whether or not the same process could be used to predict who's going to win the election?? Obviously Twitter is only going to reflect a certain demographic but at the same time, it could be a nice little cross-section of the UK population. To be honest, I'm pretty certain someone somewhere is already doing just that...
A similar idea in a website I heard about a few years back: http://www.hubdub.com/
User-generated content has the power!
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