How Social Networks Predicted Obama’s Win
I wrote a column way back in March suggesting that social networks might be the best predictor of who will win the presidency. Remember, that is back before each party had even nominated its candidate, and the field was wide open. Hillary Clinton was the expected Democratic nominee, for example. At the day, I conducted an analysis that varied from site to site, and included Digg, MySpace
and Facebook, to see which of the candidates the social sites preferred. I plus suggested that whether social sites ended up accurately predicting who would win, they might be taken seriously by future pundits when guesstimating who is likely to be elected in the future. Back thereupon, as you can read in my composition, SOCIAL SITES PREDICTED A LANDSLIDE BY OBAMA.Orginal post by Mike