Predicting the Future Using Twitter

July 3, 2014

From pbs.org >:

Exciting (but scary) stuff.

Love the name, too. EMBERS.

They mention that intelligence services aren’t really doing this yet, but I would guess they’re probably quite wrong about that.

I wonder when this will become more mainstream. More of a common marketing tool. Seems obvious to me.

The Beats add during the World Cup, for example. Viral spreading of advertisements seems like a prime use case in the civilian world.

We’ll see more of this for sure.

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