Don't turn social media into another 'Literary Digest' poll

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Gayo-Avello

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oviedo, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The power to predict outcomes based on Twitter data is greatly exaggerated, especially for political elections.