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Social Scientists Wade Into the Tweet Stream

SciencePublished 29 September 2011
Greg Miller
Citations127
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SJR score10.42
SNIP6.62

TL;DR

Researchers report their effort to use Twitter to study the collective moods of millions of people in diverse cultures around the world in real time, and their findings paint a portrait of humanity's mood swings.

Abstract

In this week's issue of Science , researchers report their effort to use the social media site Twitter to study the collective moods of millions of people in diverse cultures around the world in real time.

Keywords

Social SciencesPhysics and Astronomy