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Election Results According To Twitter

Nov 04, 2008

Mashable! Is there anything Twitter can’t do? Apparently, you can even use it to guesstimate the result of US presidential elections in certain states. This little chart below, although not graphically beautiful, is the result of some algorithms put together by Setfive Consulting. They’re parsing tweets to see if users ha (Read More)

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Isaacaggrey,

Nov 04, 2008

: As if Texas would ever be a blue state any time soon.

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Thelewisshow,

Nov 05, 2008

: Twitter is not there yet. I'd rather see something like a soldier voter map than a Twitter map.

Greghollingsworth,

Nov 05, 2008

: This reminds me of "Dewey defeats Truman". The US twitter community is significantly left-leaning, which automatically leads to bad polling data. I love twitter, but using it to predict political issues is silly, the majority of the twitter community are almost guaranteed to be democrats or at least left-leaning independents.