Twitter A Decent Stand-In For Public Opinion Polls: STUDY

Twitter A Decent Stand-In For Public Opinion Polls: STUDY

The next time you're low on cash and need to get a quick read on the public's feeling on politics or current events, consider sampling Twitter. According to a new report out of Carnegie Mellon University's computer science department, sentiments expressed via the millions of daily tweets strongly correlate with well-established public opinion polls, such as the Index of Consumer Sentiment (ICS) and Gallup polls.

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