May 24, 2012 UPDATE: It looks like our guys were right! Last night, Phillip Phillips was crowned the 2012 American Idol winner. According to the US twitter data, that’s exactly what Sternberg Distinguished Professor Alessandro Vespignani and his team over at Northeastern’s MoBS-lab predicted. This means a couple of things: 1) Apparently international voting isn’t ...
Last week I told you about work from Bruno Gonçalves, at the Laboratory of for the modeling of biological and socio-techical systems, about the Twitter behaviors of politically-minded social media users. Today I got an email from Alessandro Vespignani, who directs the laboratory, about another electoral study that his group is working on. Instead of ...