Obama wins the US election! (on Twitter) - The Guardian (blog)

Can Twitter predict the outcome of the US election? If our results are anything to go by then Barack Obama will be reelected. The data presented below are the result of some research that Adham Tamer, Ning Wang, Scott Hale and I carried out in order to see how visible both major presidential candidates are on Twitter. You can see the initial results in the interactive map below. Alternatively, you can explore the data using a sliding scale in order to better see how close the margin of victory is in each state, or compare Twitter mentions of Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan. Use the drop-down menu to change between views, and click a state for more details. You can read more about the project here. Unfortunately, we did not collect data for Alaska or Hawaii.
Mark Graham's research focuses on Internet and information geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute, and the overlaps between ICTs and economic development