Likester: Startup That Tracks What’s Hot on Facebook

Want to keep track on what’s most ‘Liked’ by everyone on Facebook? Let ‘Likester’ do that for you.
Likester is a new social networking site that uses Facebook Likes to gauge the hottest topics, events, venues or personalities in social media. Simply put, the site is a searchable database of what gets Liked on Facebook.
To prove Likester’s effectiveness, the startup recently and successfully predicted the bottom three contestants on American Idol, as well as successfully predicting that Stefano Langone would be eliminated. This prediction was made by analyzing Facebook likes that occurred post performance and before the announcement of results across hundreds of pages which are about the contestants.
On the whole, Likester proves to be an effective and more likeable way to track whats hot on Facebook.
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