Dollywagon’s latest network analysis of hash tag usage on Twitter during the current General Election raises some interesting questions.

The official election polls in the mainstream media show a tight race with the Conservatives slightly ahead of Labour and The Liberal Democrats. However, on Twitter the picture appears to be significantly different. (more…)

Recent work from HP Labs at Palo Alto in California demonstrated that crowd-sourced data taken from Twitter has an uncanny ability to predict movie box office success.

Dollywagon thought this was interesting and has been monitoring Twitter to see what it could tell us about the future outcome of the UK’s finely-balanced General Election campaign.

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