Political consultants, university sociologists, and amateur statisticians are now one step closer to using data from Twitter like they use polling data.An Indiana University study has pulled, from the noise and muck of the stream, a statistically significant relationship between Twitter data and US election results.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/a-new-study-says-twitter-can-predict-us-elections/278612/