Science Magazine published a piece today framing twitter as a laboratory for research, Social Scientists Wade Into The Tweet Stream, including the above figure showing our hedonometer’s measure of happiness in 2011 as a function of day. Dodds was also interviewed by Science for their weekly podcast, and by Benedict Carey for a New York Times piece, Happy and You Know It? So Are Millions on Twitter.
Happy and we know it
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I am curious what was the mood on 9/11…
We see a dip, but not one nearly as big as some of the others shown here.