ABCnews - "By analyzing the tweets of 2.4 million people in 84 countries, they report, they found that people generally wake up in good spirits, but things go downhill as the workday goes on. On weekends the pattern holds as well, though everything happens two hours later because people sleep in.
The patterns were consistent across the globe, they say, despite widely varying cultures and religions.
The researchers, graduate student Scott Golder and sociology professor Michael Macy, say they ran 509 million tweets through a computer program designed to discern moods from the people’s use of key words. The results are published in this week’s edition of the journal Science.
“People criticize the Internet for being mundane or filled with gossip, but that’s really not so,” said Golder in a telephone interview. “The Internet records everything, so Twitter is a giant archive of time-coded conversations.”
Golder set up a website — http://timeu.se – and invites you to try it out for yourself. Try entering a word, such as “happy” or “breakfast” or “commute,” and see what time of day it was used most often. Click “submit query” and you should get a graph like this:

dm 110929
wblog Twitter Used to Track the Worlds Mood, Shows Were Happiest in Morning" width="478" height="269">
Tweets of the word "happy" during the day, according to Timeu.se. Courtesy Scott Golder, Cornell University
A quick analysis: People tweeted the word “happy” most often around 7 a.m. or 8 a.m., and then its use tailed off. Are they bummed by the trip to work?
Try other words. (The word “sex,” perhaps predictably, craters during daytime hours, and rises overnight.)
Some patterns Golder teased out:
- People report they eat bacon more than sausage at breakfast, and Cheerios more often than Frosted Flakes.
- If people tweet the word “beer,” there’s a seven-hour lag, on average, before there’s a spike in the word “drunk.”
- Commuting on Friday isn’t so bad — but the trip home stinks.
Twitter is now the 9th-most-visited site worldwide, according to the Web-tracking service Alexa. As of July, Twitter said users were sending 200 million tweets per day."
Remember that day when Blake Lively's nude pictures got leaked to the world for all to see? The mood of Twitter that day must have been outrageous, straight roller coaster of emotions. Clearly every guy/lesbo was happy so that's one major emotion, but then you have to throw in all the horniess to follow that as too. I would have love to seen what the graph looked like on that day/time. Without a doubt that line sky rocked it to the top of the graph while passing the line percentage of Lindsay Lohan death pool ranking.
Since Twitter can read moods now and it will let us know what's up with ourselves I guess it should be sending me some help in the meantime? About 90% of my tweets have the following words in them...
white girls, boobs, whooty, date,beer, drunk, hot, average, true story, get it in, broad & chick.
yup, those are the most use words within my tweets, how is twitter going to respond to that? If it wants to give me a special feedback with some message that states
" dear twitter user MrJoshua_Jones, we here at twitter have study your tweets and came to a solution on how to up lift your mood. We'll be sending an average but semi hot white girl with big boobs to your house to have a couple beers with you. We would also like to ask you not to say anything creepy around here since it won't be a good look for us, thank you very much...twitter mood."
Anyways, I been fucking with that graph thing for awhile and its been keeping me entertain for awhile. Keeping my a.d.d. in check, yea I have a.d.d. bitches. Besides my a.d.d, how crazy is technology getting that it can read our moods by what we type online and how we share our thoughts. Pretty soon social networks are going to keep track of what girls you have in your spank bank at a specific time of day and let them know about it. Oh shit! Vicky is going to toss you on the creep list. And ladies, be careful when you go to one of your enemies walls and pretend to write something nasty about that broad but you delete to save yourself some drama. The social network will let that broad know that you was getting ready to call her a "hoe stank slore"....you see, pretty fucked. I guess there is a lesson for all of us with this twitter mood crap.
P.S. The lesson is - be a happy creep. Fake lesson learned today.