Using Twitter to Gauge the overall mood of the World…
A team from the University of Vermont gathered 4.6 billion Twitter messages from Twitter’s 33 million users from around the world. Basically the idea is to do word searches on keywords like “happy” “sad” or “Laughter” in people’s posts and see what trends were resulting.
We’ve been a bit moodier in the last year and a half it seems, but major events like earthquakes and world cup finals can produce spikes in the effect.
