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TWITTER COULD BE trying to predict the next viral tweets thanks to a new experimental account.
The account @magicstats favourites tweets that will become popular in real-time. Although it hasn’t officially been confirmed as an official account, it follows the same process as previous experimental accounts Twitter has tested out in recent times.
The account is currently private but both The Next Web and TechCrunch have noticed how it favoured tweets that became popular a few minutes after posting, although it was never the first account to do this.
Twitter has been experimenting with different accounts over the last few months to help make the site more user-friendly. The most popular one was @magicrecs, which recommends new accounts that your network is following and @eventparrot, which alerts users to breaking news stories.
The success of @magicrecs meant that Twitter is rolling out push notifications that recommend new accounts for users to follow. The account has recently started notifying users of popular conversations and hashtags within their network.
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That pic looks like something from the Third Reich.
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I’d be more impressed if they could predict the lotto numbers
just sounds like a way of encouraging herd behaviour. If its important enough it will trend anyway. Sounds like a bunch of obsessive teenagers looking over their shoulders to be told what to think
for what? some people have too much time on their hands. as for apps, hate most of them. want my location? why? no you can’t. terms and conditions we don’t like.
keep your privacy to yourselves, don’t go giving it away.
time will tell, these gimmicks are for marketing and government bodies. avoid.
for me i dont like twitter just facebook and google plus …
http://goo.gl/Upmi1F
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