Physicist claims to have a formula to forecast social networks trends, by Leonardo Gottems - 0 views
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Leonardo Gottems on 02 Apr 12What people will be talking about on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and LinkedIn? Bernardo Huberman, director of HP Labs Social Computing Resarch Group, claims to have created a formula to predict people's behavior tendencies on social networks. The physicist introduced the formulas in a lecture in the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. One of his main tools is Twitter. According to Huberman, the level of attention a subject gains at the microblog determines how much it would spread and how big the revenue can be