Twitter Mentions Accurately Predict Winners in UK Elections 8:59 AM

Can the amount of times your candidate is mentioned on Twitter actually predict their fate on Election Day? A new report released by Tweetminister on Twitter and the UK elections says yes!

For the UK's recent elections, Tweetminister set out to discover if there was any sort of correlation between the number of times a particular candidate or party was mentioned on Twitter and how that candidate or party performed on Election Day. The results are astounding.

Tweetminister found that their individual seat predictions based on Twitter mention volume were 69% accurate while regional party performance predictions were 87.5% accurate and national predictions were 90.5% accurate.

The full report is available below for your downloading and highly recommended sharing pleasure:
Tweetminster Predicts: Findings