Anger Spreads Faster Than Any Other Emotion On Twitter [STUDY]
New research reported by MIT Technology Review compares how tweets that channel specific emotions influence other people across the network.
Researcher Rui Fan and his team out of Beihang University in China found that anger is a more influential emotion on Twitter – well, technically Sina Weibo – than joy, sadness and disgust.
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During six months in 2010, Rui Fan and his collaborators collected 70 million tweets from 200,000 Sina Weibo users and constructed a social network for research purposes in which users were linked if they mutually interacted by sending messages to each other by, say, retweeting each other’s tweets.
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