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Eagle vs. Roll Tide via Facebook Lexicon 6-13-08 by: Mark Facebook recently launched an application called 'Facebook Lexicon'. Lexicon lets you type a word and then see a graph plotting the popularity of the word based on how often the word was typed on the public walls of Facebook's millions users. For
example, if you go to the application and type “finals, midterms”,
you'll see the following; As you'd expect, the word 'finals' has spikes in December and May while the word 'midterms' spikes in October and February. Now that you're caught up, it's time to have some fun; Type
in War
Eagle and Roll Tide, then adjust the graph to show the football
season. You'll see the following (War Eagle is in blue, Roll Tide
is in orange - I added the win/loss text); “Roll Tide” had the biggest days on September 15 and 16. This was the weekend Alabama beat Vanderbilt. This is also when Auburn lost to South Florida. Which event do you think caused more people to say Roll Tide? Of Alabama's top four spikes – three of them came when Auburn lost a game and the fourth came the day before the Iron Bowl. Conclusion:
Alabama fans are obsessed with Auburn*. *...says
the obviously obsessed guy who just spent 90 minutes creating a
chart showing the relationship between Auburn and Alabama battle
cries on Facebook. |
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