Hedonometer Tracks Twitter Happiness (And Sadness)
Some days you get a definite sense that something is off on Twitter. People seem angry or worried one day, extra-happy and goofy the next – it’s the land of 10,000 mood swings.
Ever wonder if your experiences on Twitter jibe with the rest of the Twitterverse? This hedonometer provides an answer.
Pulling from Twitter’s Gardenhose feed (a random sampling of roughly 50 million (10%) of all messages posted to the service), the Hedonometer assigns tweets words a “happiness score.”
To quantify the happiness of the atoms of language, we merged the 5,000 most frequent words from a collection of four corpora: Google Books, New York Times articles, Music Lyrics, and Twitter messages, resulting in a composite set of roughly 10,000 unique words.
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