Do social networks have the power to tell the future? Since the September primaries, we’ve tracked the social networks of key congressional and gubernatorial candidates to explore just how accurately social network size and growth predict success.
Here’s a chart of the candidate’s we’ve tracked and our crystal-ball bets. (If you think we’re on to something, use it to your advantage on HuffPost’s “Predict the News” Challenge.)
View the full chart to see all 8 races we tracked.
(Facebook fans and Twitter followers tracked between September 21, 2010 to October 26, 2010.)
This is all very interesting about the power of social media what got Obama into the White House beating the Clintons using the traditional communication channels to win but lost.