{"id":618,"date":"2008-10-31T20:53:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T03:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/?p=618"},"modified":"2013-08-06T03:16:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T08:16:58","slug":"how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/","title":{"rendered":"How Twitter Solves Voter and Other Types of Information Asymetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>A while ago, I wrote a post on how <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/digg-as-a-game\/197\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digg is characterized by the principles of Game Theory<\/a>.\u00a0 As it turns out, that post was Dugg to the front page of Digg and almost fried my server.\u00a0 Today, I want to briefly discuss something along the same lines of Behavioral Economics &#8212; how Twitter solves the problem of Information Asymetry.<\/p>\n<p>In Decision Theory, Information Asymetry deals with situations where one or more parties has more or better information than the other.\u00a0 In the case of Voter decisions, Twitter, the fascinating microblogging platform, is a simple solution to a nasty problem of Information Asymetry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4526 aligncenter\" title=\"vote-report\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/vote-report.jpg\" width=\"513\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/vote-report.jpg 513w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/vote-report-300x52.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A really simple example is having to deal with the decision of where and what time to vote: this decision involves one&#8217;s personal schedule but also the conditions of the voting area &#8212; are the machines working?\u00a0 super long lines?\u00a0 weather? &#8212; twitter, in this case, becomes an uncomplicated solution to a historically and, theoretically, tough problem.\u00a0 Specifically, <a title=\"pete abilla, shmula.com, twitter, twitter vote report\" href=\"http:\/\/twittervotereport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter Vote Report<\/a> was created to aid the exact problem I just described.<\/p>\n<p>Even more broadly, imagine if more Stock Traders were on Twitter: most likely, Stock Traders would have been sending Tweets about the massive sell-off in the market last week several minutes before CNN could publish the news &#8212; the difference in minutes or seconds can be huge.\u00a0 The problem of &#8220;Information Stickiness&#8221; or Information Asymetry is becoming less and less of a problem because of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Something interesting:<\/p>\n<p>Check out the segment below on Congressional Tweeting &#8211; tweets sent out by senators and congressman during a senatorial or congressional session.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"520\" height=\"415\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PRfKUIAQ1fA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"520\" height=\"415\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PRfKUIAQ1fA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I wrote a post on how Digg is characterized by the principles of Game Theory.\u00a0 As it turns out, that post was Dugg to the front page of Digg and almost fried my server.\u00a0 Today, I want to briefly discuss something along the same lines of Behavioral Economics &#8212; how Twitter solves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12327,"featured_media":11165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem - how information is free and can move in unsticky ways\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem - how information is free and can move in unsticky ways\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"OpEx Learning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/get.shmula\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-11-01T03:53:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-08-06T08:16:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry-shmula.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Uday Kawar\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@shmula\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@shmula\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Uday Kawar\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/\",\"name\":\"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry-shmula.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-11-01T03:53:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-08-06T08:16:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/#\/schema\/person\/9335b5223b67189b35bda7d6be11c3fd\"},\"description\":\"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem - how information is free and can move in unsticky ways\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry-shmula.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry-shmula.jpg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":360,\"caption\":\"twitter solves information asymetry\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Social Media\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/social-media\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"How Twitter Solves Voter and Other Types of Information Asymetry\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/\",\"name\":\"OpEx Learning\",\"description\":\"Lean Six Sigma. Simplified.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/#\/schema\/person\/9335b5223b67189b35bda7d6be11c3fd\",\"name\":\"Uday Kawar\"}]}<\/script>\n<meta property=\"og:video\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PRfKUIAQ1fA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:video:type\" content=\"text\/html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:video:duration\" content=\"240\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:video:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:video:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n<meta property=\"ya:ovs:adult\" content=\"false\" \/>\n<meta property=\"ya:ovs:upload_date\" content=\"2008-11-01T03:53:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"ya:ovs:allow_embed\" content=\"true\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem","description":"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem - how information is free and can move in unsticky ways","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem","og_description":"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem - how information is free and can move in unsticky ways","og_url":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/","og_site_name":"OpEx Learning","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/get.shmula","article_published_time":"2008-11-01T03:53:19+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-08-06T08:16:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":480,"height":360,"url":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry-shmula.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Uday Kawar","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@shmula","twitter_site":"@shmula","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Uday Kawar","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/","url":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/","name":"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry-shmula.jpg","datePublished":"2008-11-01T03:53:19+00:00","dateModified":"2013-08-06T08:16:58+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/#\/schema\/person\/9335b5223b67189b35bda7d6be11c3fd"},"description":"Twitter Information Asymetry: Solving the Voting Problem - how information is free and can move in unsticky ways","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry-shmula.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry-shmula.jpg","width":480,"height":360,"caption":"twitter solves information asymetry"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/how-twitter-solves-voter-and-other-types-of-information-asymetry\/618\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Social Media","item":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/social-media\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How Twitter Solves Voter and Other Types of Information Asymetry"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/#website","url":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/","name":"OpEx Learning","description":"Lean Six Sigma. Simplified.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/#\/schema\/person\/9335b5223b67189b35bda7d6be11c3fd","name":"Uday Kawar"}]},"og_video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PRfKUIAQ1fA","og_video_type":"text\/html","og_video_duration":"240","og_video_width":"480","og_video_height":"360","ya_ovs_adult":"false","ya_ovs_upload_date":"2008-11-01T03:53:19+00:00","ya_ovs_allow_embed":"true"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}