Global Mood Trends Outlined by Millions of Tweets
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
According to an analysis of 2.4 million tweets from 84 countries made by Research Company Cornell mood trends are pretty much the same regardless of cultures and borders, suggesting that to a much deeper trend whose basis is in being human, not belonging to a specific place or particular people. Scott Golder, a doctoral student of sociology said in a press release: “We saw the influence of something that's biological- or sleep-based; regardless of the day of the week, the shape of the mood rhythm is the same. The difference between weekdays and weekends has to do with the average mood, which is higher on the weekends than the weekdays.”
Twitter provided access to the researches via a public interface, the huge amount of information was processed by researchers at the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing’s Web Lab. Cornell also created timeu.se Web site where users can enter different keywords in order to analyze how behaviors, in addition to moods, are distributed throughout the day.