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Berlin, Germany – Akamoto today is thrilled to announce its new iOS news app ‘GOP Unbound 1.1′ is here to speculate about the potential delegate count for the 2012 Republican US Presidential Nominating Convention in Tampa, Florida, August 27-30.

The GOP Unbound engine is currently drinking about one million tweet messages each week, following a simple pattern: counting all mentions (not only hashtags) of the four Republican candidates, consolidating and translating it into a stable delegate forecast for the second ballot of an open convention. All forecasts are done on a national as well on a state level and later recombined. For creating state specific forecasts, the GOP Unbound engine considers available location data of each tweet and tries to assign it to the correct US state.

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Berlin, Germany – Akamoto today is thrilled to announce its new iOS news app ‘GOP Unbound 1.1′ is here to speculate about the potential delegate count for the 2012 Republican US Presidential Nominating Convention in Tampa, Florida, August 27-30.

The GOP Unbound engine is currently drinking about one million tweet messages each week, following a simple pattern: counting all mentions (not only hashtags) of the four Republican candidates, consolidating and translating it into a stable delegate forecast for the second ballot of an open convention. All forecasts are done on a national as well on a state level and later recombined. For creating state specific forecasts, the GOP Unbound engine considers available location data of each tweet and tries to assign it to the correct US state.

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