"Can social media call the election?"
The article discusses the raging topic in USA at the very moment - which presidential candidate will be elected, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? The article then proceeds to comment on how the media also has a huge influence on the two answers, where social network posts from the famous Twitter has a contribution to this. The California Institute of Technology unveiled a website Monday called Tweeting the Election that breaks down tweets by geography and the political background of the person tweeting. As a result of all empirical evidence being gathered, these numbers may give us an earlier breakdown of how the election might pan out. Clinton also used social media to her advantage, launching a Spanish-language Twitter feed and website, using the global Internet to show their support for her.
- 120 Twitter accounts in America
- America has Twitter's majority of users, having 3x the users of Brazil who ranks 2nd most country using Twitter
I would answer the article's question by agreeing, and that yes, social media does in fact have a significant influence in how the election will end with, however these results would also have to be analysed at a deep and discursive level to give an unbiased outcome. Social media's will also give an anonymous voice to those who particularly don't want to make their decisions public, and by doing so anonymously on the Internet, they will not be subject to discrimination.
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