Social Media

Data Mining for Predictive Social Network Analysis

Given this enormous volume of social media data, analysts have come to recognize Twitter as a virtual treasure trove of information for data mining, social network analysis, and information for sensing public opinion trends and groundswells of support for (or opposition to) various political and social initiatives. Twitter Trend Topics in particular are becoming increasingly recognized as a valuable proxy for measuring public opinion.

This article describes the techniques author employed for a proof-of-concept that effectively analyzed Twitter Trend Topics to predict, as a sample test case, regional voting patterns in the 2014 Brazilian presidential election.

AUTHOR: Elder Santos

Getting Into the Social Media Marketing

The rate of change in the digital world is in constant acceleration. New social apps and networks are coming up overnight and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell recognize the next killer app.

When our social customers like us on Facebook, 60% of them expect to find peer-to-peer experiences and 46% expect incentives or rewards. Also, 40% of consumers say they want more from brands in social media. It's really important to be aware of this. Consumers just expect brands to be there engaging them in specific ways.

Social Media Marketing Potential

We all know that social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are daily destinations for millions of people.

Great thing about marketing on those networks is that their ad products offer targeting according to specific demographics, social connections, interests, and habits.

As brands look across a fractured media landscape, where few digital properties offer any scale, social networks offer them an interesting proposition.

BusinessInsider.com did the analyze of social media advertising and where it is heading.