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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by Godel_unicode on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:00PM (#12674430)
Because you don't (and probably can't) know that this model is accurate? Also, there are a lot of populations which are not present on Twitter at all, and more which are not present in meaningful numbers.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by dapz on Sunday October 09, 2016 @10:57PM (#12674751)
Such models presumably can be tested in some sense. E.g. build some sort of predictive model of elections in each state using Twitter users as a surrogate, see how well you do.

I'm not claiming that such a model is guaranteed to be perfect or even as good as a pollster, but it sounds in principle like a reasonable thing to do, if you take appropriate precautions to reduce bias.

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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by eveningcoffee on Monday October 10, 2016 @04:43AM (#12675875)
At least one can try definitely.
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