Don't turn social media into another 'Literary Digest' pollDaniel Gayo-Avello2011-09-23articleCommunications of the ACM147 citationsgreenNo readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.Social Media and PoliticsSentiment Analysis and Opinion MiningComputational and Text Analysis MethodsAbstractThe power to predict outcomes based on Twitter data is greatly exaggerated, especially for political elections.Citations in this libraryStored only when both papers are in the corpus — 147 citations exist upstream.References2010Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment2012Predicting the Present with Google Trends2010Predicting the Future with Social Media2009Twitter adoption and use in mass convergence and emergency events2010Predicting the Present with Google Trends2012A Biography of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life ProjectCited by2014The power of social media analytics2012Correlating financial time series with micro-blogging activity2014Uncovering customer service experiences with Twitter: the case of airline industry2016Predicting wins and spread in the Premier League using a sentiment analysis of twitter2016Online and Social Media Data As an Imperfect Continuous Panel Survey2016Digital Trace Data in the Study of Public Opinion2014Integrating Social Media Communications into the Rapid Assessment of Sudden Onset Disasters2013Box office prediction based on microblog