Yes people, Twitter is keeping on progressing and came up with a new idea together with internet bureau Mangrove. Mangrove is making a website which will measure the tweets given on Dutch twitter sites about the elections. This remarkable project came into existence by a young IT student Jordy van Gelder.
The website scans every name of parties whom are participating in the elections in every public tweet on Twitter. Trough the help of an language model their will be known whether the tweet is positive or negative about the written party. At this point there are 30.000 tweets which are scanned through Mangrove.
However, this way of measuring the elections of the future is not waterproof. Even the creator has to agree with this statement, because people could like one aspect of a party they are not going to vote for. But, the young internet marketer released a pilot version of the website and this far his measurements are somewhat the same of the big bureaus. It is just a matter time to see whether this way of predicting will be a success. Cause if it is, it is a lot cheaper than the other bureaus busting their bottoms and asking high priced measurement fees, which will bring a new angle to this branch.
My personal vote goes out for the old fashion way, I’m not a big fan of strategies which not offer a 100% cure. I’m going to watch the progression of our golden boy Jordy van Gelder and let you people know after the elections. Good luck with watching the debates on television, but do not forget that the best debater is not the best politician. As same as the saying: The captain is not the best player on the pitch. Try to look through all that jabbering and provoking and try to see the real successor of JP Balkenende, who that should be. I’ll let you decide.
Greetings,
Riza the Blogman
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