I don’t think we can get much from this study as it is specific to the tweets about the controversial referendum (the negative tweets were mainstream) in Spain

I don’t think we can get much from this study as it is specific to the tweets about the controversial referendum (the negative tweets were mainstream) in Spain for Catalan independence: Dr Esmeralda Bon, a research associate from the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research at the University of Manchester, said the study results should not be taken to mean that there was more value in being negative than positive on social media. “The researchers suggest that positive tweets were shared less due to the negativity surrounding the referendum. Therefore, these tweets would have resonated more. In a sense, negative tweets about this topic were mainstream,” she said.