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Welcome to Trend Thursdays, the official twitter trend thread!

Twitter analytics are brought to you by Topsy. Here we will be testing social media as a sales indicator. I have put a lot of thought into making these algorithms so we get the most accurate picture possible. I will be updating this thread every week. It’ll be interesting to see how close the trends line up with npd sales, and if we can generate a statistical formula over time that can give us reasonable predictions.

Update: August Monthlly Triends:

Xbox One: Green
PS4: Blue
Wii-U: Orange

Ending 8/28/2105:


Breakdown:

  Social Share Weekly Change
Wii-U 7.91% 0.04%
PS4 55.07% -1.10%
XB1 37.02% 1.06%

 

The trend break down for July

Feel free to ask any questions you might have.

About the author: I am a backend developer and a statistician. I look forward to taking on this project. Let me know if you see any trends, correlation, causation, or improvements that can be made.