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Could Social Media Monitoring have Better Predicted the Results to the Alberta Provincial Election?
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Publisher:  Tenato Strategy Inc.
Date Written:  28/04/2012
Year Published:  2012  
Resource Type:  Article

New data shows that social media monitoring is far more current, and perhaps more reliable, than traditional polling. It's time for the media to start paying attention to new methods.

Abstract:  It turns out that social media sentiment monitoring software might need to become a regular tool in the media's toolkit, especially given the mishap of inaccurate pollsters in the Alberta provincial elections. Why? The election results jived much better with real-time social media monitoring than with days-old polling techniques.

Upon recent research into the latest social media monitoring tools, Tenato requested a guest blog from Jay Cloutier of Marketwire, whose product, Sysomos, allows t...
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