Twitter Is Used To Share Good News, Phones Used To Share Bad [STUDY]

When you get good news, do you quickly take to Twitter to share it with your followers? If you do, you’re not alone: a new study shows that Twitter is used more for good news, while phones are the technology of choice for sharing bad news.

A new study, which was published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, explores how people share using new media. The researchers wanted to understand what media people chose when sharing important life events, and how they feel when they share these events using their medium of choice.

The study included 300 undergraduate students at UW-Madison.