... media has had on sales, where "the attention parameter captures the buzz around the product in social media" (Asur). One way they accomplish this is by "using text classifiers to distinguish positively oriented tweets from negative" (Asur). These studies have shown that "social media feeds can be effective indications of real-world performance," which means that ... in real-world political change and does not play a role in political activism, there is strong evidence to the contrary. In Spain, for example, in 2004, "demonstrations organized by text messaging led to the quick and ouster...

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