Lynne Guey

abcworldnews:

theatlantic:

Jared Keller:

The idea of a social media index — a way of looking at sociopolitical phenomena through data mined from social networks — has only captured major national attention in the past several months. Researchers at Harvard University and Northeastern University have dissected three years worth of tweets to track America’s mood as it changes in real time. The result is this color-coded time-lapse video of America’s mood swings.

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Oh the fun social media can provide us.