Moneybox

RapStats Is Bullish on Twitter

Twitter is, by most conventional metrics, considerably less popular than Facebook and arguably growing more slowly to boot. But one place where Twitter is absolutely crushing Facebook is in hip-hop lyrics, as measured by Rap Genius’ amazing new Rap Stats tool.

Given the normal dynamics of cultural appropriation and so forth, this is arguably a key bullish indicator for Twitter. It’s way behind right now, but considerably more popular on the cultural cutting edge. But of course that’s just a hypothesis. What we really need is someone at one of the investment banks or quant funds to really crunch the numbers and see if rap lyrics are a leading indicator for consumer products.