INFOGRAPHIC: Mapping the Politics of the Social Web

Like to sell stuff on eBay? You might be a Romney voter — and you’re probably very highly engaged politically. Like xckd and Tumblr? You’re totally in the Obama camp — but a bit less likely to exhibit political interests, at least if your Facebook likes are any indication.

Over the past few months, we’ve crunched countless “Likes” from thousands of users of Trendsetter, our first-of-its-kind platform that ties together polling, social influence data, and consumer preferences. We’ve used it to map the politics of the social web, analyzing the political partisanship of the user bases of various social properties. Using predictive modeling of Facebook likes, we tied political preferences and engagement to one’s choice of social media, and this bubble graph is the result:

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This picture has a place in history because

A. It showcases the daughters of a musical legend from four different women.

B. Is the very first manipulated digital picture.

C. It’s the first photographic image ever uploaded to the world wide web.

D. Shortly after taking this picture, all women died unexpectedly of violent diarrhea.

Answer 

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