The service Twitter could be used to predict the box office blockbuster of the film, according to researchers from Hewlett Packard. computer scientists studied three million messages – known as tweets – 25 of about films including Avatar.
They found that the rate which messages are generated could be used to predict accurately the movie box office before the premiere.
Further analysis of the content of messages, could predict the persistence or not successful. “The predictions were incredibly close” said Bernardo Huberman, head of the social computing lab at HP.
For example, said that the system predicted that the film The Crazies will make 16.8 million dollars in its first weekend in the U.S.. It has 16.06 million dollars.
The provision for the romantic drama Dear John, was 30.71 million dollars the first weekend in the U.S.. He made 30.46 million dollar