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Can Twitter Tell Us If Apple's iPad Won The Christmas Tablet War?

Buzzfeed have called the Christmas Tablet Wars for Apple. Data mining Twitter was their real world test (as opposed to something a little bit more rigourous which would take a little longer). By looking for the phrase "First tweet from" and then picking up on the name of the hardware afterwards, they could rank the newest tablets out there, and the iPad scored the highest.

 

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