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by benofsky 5443 days ago
Just as an example from my own experiences: I was able to predict the winner of the XFactor within 1% of the final vote, two hours prior to the final [1]. I've also written an algorithm that can with 80% accuracy detect a news story will come out of a group of tweets. There is a lot that can be done with this data.

[1] http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0115/122426...