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A friend and I started playing around with twitter data back in early 2010. We currently have something close to over 587 million tweets collected (We stopped c

A friend and I started playing around with twitter data back in early 2010. We currently have something close to over 587 million tweets collected (We stopped collecting earlier this year). We only pulled English tweets and those that described what someone was feeling (Im, I am, I feel, I am feeling, etc. along with the negatives I don't feel, I do not feel, etc). We were able to see some interesting events happen during the time though. This is a graph of the anxiety levels of twitter on March 11th, the bottom axis is the hour of the day EST. The earthquake hit Japan @ 1:46 EST. http://i.imgur.com/BeBwa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/BeBwa.jpg There is a strange dip around noon that we are unsure of how to account for as our servers did not report any failures. It was a fun project to play around with.

cpeterso 14y ago
> There is a strange dip around noon that we are unsure of how to account for as our servers did not report any failures. Maybe people are away from their computer at lunch. What do the blue and green line colors indicate? It would also be interesting to track emoticons. :)
- TravisPe 14y ago
  The green line represents the number of tweets that were marked as being anxious and the blue lines represents tweets marked as calm. You can see that after the tsunami hit there was a general spike in the overall traffic, but a much larger spike for tweets where the user described being anxious. We also analyzed the tweets for emotions flagging each to either be "happy" or "sad". Don't have the data able to be displayed in any consumable format at the moment though. These are some logs for the day (totals) Calm Anxious Happy Sad 2011-03-08 2034 8730 77032 94119 2011-03-09 1349 5129 47708 59406 2011-03-10 1614 6020 51623 72214 2011-03-11 4126 20427 87763 126688 2011-03-12 3251 13009 104434 136389 We had 96 adjectives we used to filter for anxiety and 3242 adjectives we used for emotions (happy/sad).
Anon84 14y ago
That type of daily behavior is common in human activities. It matches nicely with typical daily activities like waking up, having lunch, etc... See http://www.bgoncalves.com/component/jdownloads/finish/3/17.html http://www.bgoncalves.com/component/jdownloads/finish/3/17.h... for an example in web page traffic, http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/200805-21_JofPhysA-Uncovering/200805-21_JofPhysA-Uncovering.pdf http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/200805... for cell phone traffic, etc...

cpeterso 14y ago

> There is a strange dip around noon that we are unsure of how to account for as our servers did not report any failures. Maybe people are away from their computer at lunch. What do the blue and green line colors indicate? It would also be interesting to track emoticons. :)

TravisPe 14y ago
The green line represents the number of tweets that were marked as being anxious and the blue lines represents tweets marked as calm. You can see that after the tsunami hit there was a general spike in the overall traffic, but a much larger spike for tweets where the user described being anxious. We also analyzed the tweets for emotions flagging each to either be "happy" or "sad". Don't have the data able to be displayed in any consumable format at the moment though. These are some logs for the day (totals) Calm Anxious Happy Sad 2011-03-08 2034 8730 77032 94119 2011-03-09 1349 5129 47708 59406 2011-03-10 1614 6020 51623 72214 2011-03-11 4126 20427 87763 126688 2011-03-12 3251 13009 104434 136389 We had 96 adjectives we used to filter for anxiety and 3242 adjectives we used for emotions (happy/sad).

Anon84 14y ago

That type of daily behavior is common in human activities. It matches nicely with typical daily activities like waking up, having lunch, etc... See http://www.bgoncalves.com/component/jdownloads/finish/3/17.html http://www.bgoncalves.com/component/jdownloads/finish/3/17.h... for an example in web page traffic, http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/200805-21_JofPhysA-Uncovering/200805-21_JofPhysA-Uncovering.pdf http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/200805... for cell phone traffic, etc...