Food Mood Measures Tweet Sentiment About Food

Ever wonder what earth-shattering socio-economic information you could uncover by exploring what people around the world tweet about food? Yeah, neither have we. But some folks obviously have because they created an application called FoodMood. And it has some pretty lofty goals.

The site uses geo-located tweets along with language processing techniques to capture and analyze the foods people are tweeting about in real time – and how they feel about these foods. Some questions they throw out there that may be burning a hole in your brain right now include:

Do Happy Meals make Americans happy?

Are rich folks enjoying food more than those from poorer nations?

Does national history manifest itself in present-day food consumption?

We didn’t make those up – especially not that last one.

So now you’re likely wondering, as we were – “what’s the point?” We’ll

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