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How popularity on Facebook and Twitter helped predict the election

article published on 28 November, 2010

It appears that how popular you are on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter actually had a real world effect on the November elections in the United States. Candidates with more "likes" on Facebook won 71 percent of the time in the Senate elections while candidates with more Twitter followers won 74 percent of the time. Facebook said that in 77 of the 118 races it followed ... [ read the full article ]

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I'll add that to the list of things Facebook is good for right under Trolling. Number three on the list is nothing.
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