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It’s Official – Twitter Knows When We Are Happy or Sad!

07/23/2010 - 1:00 pm By Diana Adams

Here is yet another reason to embrace our beloved Twitter (as if we needed another reason, right?). Scientists have now discovered that the overall mood of America can be determined on Twitter.

The time-lapse video below shoes the mood in the States as inferred using over 300 million tweets over the course of the day. The maps are represented using density-preserving cartograms.

You’ll see the color scale at the beginning of the video. Red represents not very happy, and the colors move in increments all the way up to bright green, which represents very happy. If you do not have a city listed on your Twitter profile, then you were left out of the study.

The people at cnet news have taken this data and refined it even more to determine that people on the west coast are happier than people on the east coast. (Dang, I live in Atlanta, and I’m happy!) This stuff fascinates me and I could go on and on, but instead, I will refer you to the source article on technorati. Thank you, @jewelrythings, for sending me this information!

Author: Diana Adams

By day, Diana is the CEO/owner of Adams Consulting Group, Inc, a technology services and business solutions consultancy firm serving the specific needs of its clients in advertising and public relations. By night, she lives and breathes by writing. After publishing a small cookbook last year, she is now working on her new masterpiece, scheduled for publishing next year. “I could write all night long and not get tired of it. I think that is when you know you’ve tapped into a true passion. Whatever that thing may be, if you could do it all day or night long, lose track of time, ‘wake up’ ten hours later, and still thirst for more, that is a passion, and I feel like I’ve found that in my writing.” Diana also spends many hours each week assisting the homeless men and women in Atlanta. You can find her on Twitter at @adamsconsulting.

13 Comments

Misty Belardo

July 23rd, 2010

Wow this is amazing, one can see what technology can do today! Thanks for sharing D.. love your posts!!

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Diana Adams Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:12 pm

Thank you! I thought it was pretty neat too. It’s just another reason why Twitter rocks!!! hahaha Thank you for leaving a comment BFF.

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giuliadventures

July 23rd, 2010

Wow…this is brilliant!!! Twitter rocks and we already knew that, but this is so a-ma-zing!:) I’m going to spread the word right now:D

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Diana Adams Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:00 pm

Thank you! You are right, we already knew Twitter rocks, but now we have proof. hahaha

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Anita Nelson

July 23rd, 2010

LOVE THIS~!! Twitter is a Mood Ring for America~!! LOL
x0x
Anita @ModelSupplies

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Anita Nelson Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:08 pm

Looks like we should move to either Florida or California to be happy~! Very cool stuff, Diana~!

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Diana Adams Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:08 pm

OMG – You are SO RIGHT!!! It’s a MOOD RING for America. Suddenly you made me like this even more than I already did. You are so awesome. Luv you.

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Shanna Cramer

July 24th, 2010

Very enlightening.

California and Florida seem to be the happiest. North Dakota never changed from red. Minnesota was mostly red but went to orange sometimes. I knew it wasn’t me! It’s the people around me that are always crabby.

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Diana Adams Reply:
July 24th, 2010 at 7:39 am

Hi Shanna, that’s funny. I haven’t heard the word “crabby” in years, love it!!! Thanks for your comment.

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Brent ~ the roseman

July 24th, 2010

Looks like New York and Louisiana are both pretty much in a permanent state of angst.

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Nicole @NikkiD66

July 24th, 2010

Very cool, indeed! AS IF we need more reason to love Twitter! Also just a bit creepy to me, like are our thoughts next to be tracked and graphed, haha! Technology is progressing oh so rapidly and thanks for keeping me and all of Twitter up to date, Diana.

Anita @ModelSupplies ~ Great one with the Mood Ring!!

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Sara at Saving For Someday

August 26th, 2010

This is completely believable, thank you for sharing this. I wonder, though, how weather impacts this. Imagine if it was a fabulously gorgeous day out west but a miserably hot and stifling day in the east. Can their methodology filter out these variables? If so, there may be more use to this.

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