Twitter is good for finding information, for sure. But could it be used to predict events ahead of time?

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Could you use Twitter to ostensibly figure out that a historical tide is shifting before it actually does? Kinda. This is from a new study done by a PhD student at MIT named Nathan Kallus. Here's the abstract:

With public information becoming widely accessible and shared on today's web, grea…