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Twitter-powered algorithm predicts this year’s Love Island winner

A Twitter-powered algorithm has predicted who is most likely to win this year’s Love Island contest.

Having correctly predicted the eliminations of Anna and Jordan, Chris and Harley and now Anton and Belle, the algorithm has Greg and Amber as the outright winners.

Analysis of over five million tweets gives them a 60.325/100 chance of winning.

That would defy the odds of bookmakers across the country who believe Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae Hague will scoop the £50k prize.

Chris Poole, Head of Trading at BetVictor said: “This season’s Love Island has been rather eventful and that has reflected in the market moves.

“As a bit of fun, we decided to scrape social media data to see if the discussions on Twitter are a more accurate indicator of which couple will win the competition.

“Our social media algorithm has Greg and Amber as favourites, while our traders have Tommy and Molly-Mae.

“It will be very interesting to see who will be proved right.”

Top 5 most popular Islanders based on the volume of positive Tweets:

Name Volume of Positive Tweets
Amber Gill 411,783
Ovie Soko 247,999
Maura Higgins 234,605
Tommy Fury 222,850
Curtis Pritchard 202,676

Predicted winner:

Couple Chance of winning
Greg and Amber 60.325
Tommy and Molly-Mae 54.756
Ovie and India 47.788
Curtis and Maura 37.553
Anton and Belle 36.891
Chris and Harley 35.884
Jordan and Anna 32.015
Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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