Facebook and Twitter Predicted Election Results

"According to figures released this morning, popularity on Facebook provided a surprisingly accurate portrait of House and Senate races. Facebook's political team said that candidates with more Facebook fans than their opponents won 74% of House races and 81% of Senate races. Though Facebook accurately predicted most elections, some big upsets included Christine O'Donnell, Meg Whitman, and Sharron Angle, all of whom had far more fans on Facebook, yet lost their elections," reports Austin Carr. "In the days leading up to the election, most every poll showed Angle ahead of Harry Reid; however, data compiled by Crimson Hexagon, which uses a sophisticated algorithm to analyzes Twitter conversations online, showed Reid ahead of Angle 55% to 45%. Reid ended up winning, proving polls wrong, with 50.2% of the vote, compared with Angle's 44.6%." READ MORE