04 Oct 2011
We continue our occasional series on “Using social media to find out things we could have told you for a fiver” with a paper from the journal Science, in which researchers from Cornell University have been using Twitter to monitor the attitudes of 2.4 million people in 84 countries.
The conclusion, after two years of research, is that we wake up happy, and become less happy during the working day. This might be the long-sought confirmation of the existence of affective rhythms that dominate our state of mind. It might be that work is depressing, most of the time.
Or it might be that this sample became grouchy when they saw the volume of crap their friends were posting on Twitter every day.
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