Friday, August 27, 2010

How Twitter Affects the Nation's Mood

Twitter has also been used to measure the mood of the nation. Alan Mislove and colleagues collected 300 million tweets from the US, analysed their emotional content, and produced a 'mood of the nation' video. It shows how the emotional content of people's tweets changes over the day (red is negative and green positive):



And more of this very interesting article on:
http://www.spring.org.uk/2010/08/twitter-10-psychological-insights.php

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