Global Mood Swings

redwing · Oct 2, 2011

It's nice to have it confirmed that people like their "days off" !

Twitter is many things to many people — a social place, a place of business, a media platform — but now it has a new role as a mood meter, with researchers finding most people worldwide have the same mood rhythms.
Cornell University researchers used a text-analysis program called the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count to analyze 509 million tweets and “gauge the positive affect (enthusiasm, delight, activeness, alertness, etc.) or negative affect (distress, fear, anger, guilt, disgust, etc.) expressed by the text,” according to a news release about the study.
The researchers found “people tend to be more positive on weekends and early in the morning. In general, individuals awaken in a good mood that slowly deteriorates as the day progresses, which is consistent with the effects of sleep and circadian rhythms.”
“On weekends, those early-morning good moods are delayed for two hours, suggesting that people sleep later on those days.”
Twitter moods and the rhythm of those moods are about the same in among the 2.4 million users in 84 different countries surveyed over a two-year period.
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http://www.cbc.ca e...mood-study.html

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