Twitter Will Gauge Voter Sentiment in New Venture: Will Twitter Call the Next Election?

LOL I love it. Difficult choice isn't it. Which one should we eat?

lol it looks exactly the same as mitt and obummer

ewwww!

What could possibly be inaccurate about polling mostly young, urban, college-educated internet users? It's not like Twitter is a biased sample of the country, or anything.

(They could conceivably correct this by weighing Conservative Twitter users more than Liberal Twitter users to make the breakdown more representative of America, though. I don't know what's "under the hood" so to speak of their algorithm)

Agreed, if they could factor in those persons not on Twitter, they could get a cross section of the old and uneducated. Like, if each person is asked if they know someone who is not online, and how would they vote, and multipy that number by 2, they would get a more accurate result. Then, next year, tweek it to perfection.

SodaHead will accurately predict the 2012 election like we predicted the 2008 election.

We shall see Fef lol

NO

But this is the kind of underhanded and freakish bs the progressives do. Powered by google I am sure.... you can't get any more progressive than google.

Does that explain the sudden upsurge in Twitter enrollment to Mitten's feed? The one some experts believe is impossible naturally, but could be done if people were essentialy paid to join his Twitter feed...LOL!!!

Acorn people have to be paid to do something right? All of those illegal aliens need jobs that real Americans wouldn't do?

The left have lost the net advantage... bring it...... if you want twitter to become the home of the right.

So you're saying the right have now hired all the ACORN people and illegal aliens? LOL!!!

Wouldn't put it past them!

Not my problem if you are incapable of understanding my comment. EOT

I didn't understand it, either.

Nice followup...yesterday, the Florida GOP fired a firm for illegally registering hundreds of voters in Florida!! LOL!!!

Seems they were paid $7-13 per person they registered, and so they forged registrations, changed real ones, oh, and they also threw away any from people who insisted on registered as Democrats, even though it was supposed to be a "non-partisan" registration process.

Curious that they even hired the firm, long associated with the GOP, since they've been doing this very stuff for about 10 years now in at least 8 states!
The article I read pointed out that the group was dumping Democratic registration forms and submitting invalid ones a few years ago, literally at the same time the GOP were on the floor of Congress attacking ACORN for doing the same thing (which, it turned out, ACORN didn't do).

If this is from the progressives, then why do the progressives vote "no" here?

Nobody will call the election except for the voters in the voting booth.

Good grief....

There are a lot of voters who don't use twitter... including this guy.

There are a lot of voters who don't vote. I feel people will be staying home in droves this cycle because as Mr.Hoodz points out, it is a though choice.

http://thought-f00d.blogspot.com

Less than 10% use Twitter and a significant number of those are young, often more liberal, left-leaning (as many younger less life-experienced people are) and Twitter does seem to be dominated by plenty of left-leaning Hollywood celebrity types (many entertainers do skew far-left, drug addicts, depressives etc).

So.. what would be the point of this?
In Canada's last election, IF you believed the Twitter-verse, obviously Canada's 'right-wing fundies' the Conservatives were going to get blown away by an outraged OWS peoples movement.
Instead, Liberals were destroyed in the election and Conservatives were rewarded by voters with a majority government.

But I suppose it might indicate where Twitter users will go in an election?

Not everyone uses twitter, plus I wouldn't trust the results.

I hope not!

Lame!

Just like the last Presidential election -

Left wing liberal democraps will vote more than once.

According to http://www.mediabistro.com/al... only about 8% of the adult population is on Twitter. I would hardly call that representative of the entire population.

Very well said!

Thank you!

Twitter is worthless

Twitter is over-represented by the left but they are a great technology.

I know that a lot of people are on twitter but I don't know any of them. I think they are all below voting age or from our wonderfully oblivious crop of college students.

I believe that we have an obligation to lie on polls. Polling is based on a destructive idea that you can categorize people into stereotypical special interest groups who think alike. Yes, I know that is what we tend to be but we should strive to be independent thinkers.

I encourage everyone to lie on opinion polls. An election should be based on votes. And politicians should have to talk to everyone, not just battleground states with battleground voters. And another benefit is that when you see, say, a single white woman, you don't think, ahh, Obama voter or something. People can think for themselves.

Twitter's about as scientific as Sodahead....

No because there are HUGE segments of the U.S. population who don't tweet.

I'm pretty sure the American people are sick of both these political vampires. If twitter reflects that, then it's all good. But you know people will pick and choose which tweets to show the American people in order to further manipulate and exploit them.

Who gives a rats ass?

Twitter sucks and those who use it suck even worse.

I agree, they need to get a life!

Twitter suck at times! no one is loyal there. and sometimes you dont get you updates.....or
members! Bummer!

Remember we have a great deal of people who are uneducated bystanders who seem to not care about who is running this county. They are to wrapped up in being politically correct to safe face with friends than to be concerned with real issues at hand. These people have no real backbone to which is required to flex the finger in clicking a mouse. So the end result will not be called by twitter.