‘So Did Social Media ‘Predict’ the Election?’ – ‘Mashable’

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “So Did Social Media ‘Predict’ the Election?”.

Alex Fitzpatrick says, “Nate Silver’s being hailed as a Big Data hero after correctly predicting an overwhelming majority of states in Tuesday’s presidential election. But how did social media sentiment fair as a barometer of the electorate?

Before the election was called, Mashable reported that Twitter sentiment in the hotly contested battleground states was split: it favored Barack Obama in Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire and Iowa, while Romney had the lead in New Mexico, Virginia, Colorado and Nevada”.

So Did Social Media ‘Predict’ the Election?

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