07-31-2012, 07:21 AM
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| No Use for Donk Twits
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| Mapping the Politics of the Social Web
INFOGRAPHIC: Mapping the Politics of the Social Web | Engage Quote:
Like to sell stuff on eBay? You might be a Romney voter — and you’re probably very highly engaged politically. Like xckd and Tumblr? You’re totally in the Obama camp — but a bit less likely to exhibit political interests, at least if your Facebook likes are any indication.
Over the past few months, we’ve crunched countless “Likes” from thousands of users of Trendsetter, our first-of-its-kind platform that ties together polling, social influence data, and consumer preferences. We’ve used it to map the politics of the social web, analyzing the political partisanship of the user bases of various social properties. Using predictive modeling of Facebook likes, we tied political preferences and engagement to one’s choice of social media, and this bubble graph is the result:
| Interesting, but I really don't understand the complexities of the collection process. Who determines what is left/center/right? An example is polurl.com. They put NYT & ABC as center.
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Admittedly, all of the above is a product of my deep-seated and virulent racism. /sarcasm |
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