It's been said that the credit card companies have such good data on spending patterns that they can predict major life events, such as weddings and divorces.<p>Anyway, I called Amex and they wouldn't tell me mine...
original post: <a href="http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-facebook-and-breakups/" rel="nofollow">http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-face...</a><p>although still no y-axis :(
Based on their election widget and access to demographic information, Facebook probably could put together scarily accurate, realtime election results.
This means 10000 status updates that mentioned a break-up. I did not guess that at first and was surprised how many of 10000 random updates could have been breakups...