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Well it seems that in the latest study of the possibilities custom computer technology social media sites offer, Twitter has been shown to be an extremely accurate predictor for how well movies will do in the box office. Research on movie revenues that scientists used Twitter to predict showed results in which the Twitter-based predictions fell within a few hundreds of thousands of dollars of the actual revenues made. This research study was so successful that it beat out the guesses made by the Hollywood Stock Exchange! Who would have ever thought that a social media site could become a tool to predict the actual outcomes of things!

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