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On the importance of sentiment analysis

CIA is making a huge usage of sentiment analysis techniques applied to data feeds like twitter, facebook, blogs, etc. etc.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/exclusive-us-spies-buy-stake-in-twitter-blog-monitoring-firm/

I guess that similar techniques can be used also in other fields...