Opera Tests NFL Online Popularity, Predicts Super Bowl Winner
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In Opera Software’s (News - Alert) State of the Mobile Web report, the browser maker focused on the online popularity of NFL teams.
Opera analyzed the online popularity using anonymous and aggregated data to determine the winners of football games. In the initial rounds of the playoffs, the data were inconclusive. For the conference championship games, the analysis was spot on and predicted the outcome of the two games.
The NFL has nearly 4 million Facebook (News - Alert) fans, and there are teams that have more than 2.5 million fans. There are 474 percent more active users on the NFL Facebook Page than there were in 2010, and NFL fans generate 144 percent more content than they did last year, according to NFL Digital.
Going off the online popularity analysis to predict the winner for the Super Bowl, Opera believes the New England Patriots will beat the NY Giants.
“I’m betting everything I have in my online betting account at the moment on the Patriots,” said Nils Brostrom, vice president of communications, Opera Software. “That means if the analysis is correct, I get a whopping USD 26 on the Patriots winning the Superbowl.”
There are over 150 NFL players on Twitter (News - Alert), and Mashable has listed to the top 20 must-follow players, including Nick Barnett, Drew Brees, Reggie Bush and Chase Daniel.
In December 2011, the number of unique Opera mini users increased 5.57 percent from 2010 to over 152.6 million users. Opera Mini browser features compression technology, advanced yet transparent to the user, making webpages available for all possible users globally. Since December 2010, the number of unique users has increased 78.45 percent on a global basis.
However, the NY Giants emerged as the most tweeted team of Super Bowl 46, among the top five most tweeted Super Bowl-related topics since 3 p.m. Tuesday, with more than 7,000 mentions on Twitter. ExactTarget identified more than 313,000 tweets related to the Super Bowl from 3 p.m. Tuesday to 3 p.m. Wednesday, which is an increase of more than 150 percent over the previous 24-hour period.
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Edited by Rich Steeves
