C.E.J #5

Emily

2/20/13

C.E.J #5

The happiest and saddest states according to Twitter

U.S.A

Kelly Heather
CNN student News
February 20,2013
Technology
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/19/tech/social-media/twitter-happiness/index.html

    There has been a recent study at University of Vermont regarding the  happiest and saddest tweets on twitter with a  geotagged tweet.  The study uses words like LoL, hahahahah, sleep, good,nice ,wine and food as well as beach related words as happy words.  While sad words are mad, hate, no, boo, smoke and jail.  The tweets shows the mood of the states according to the  15% of adults that use twitter.  The happiest states are Maine, Nevada, Utah and Vermont according to the tweets.  The saddest states were Mississippi, Maryland, Michigan and Delaware while Louisiana was found to be the saddest state.  Higher obesity states were found to  have sadder tweets and they used words such as McDonalds, wings, ham and heartburn.  The happier states used terms like cafe, sushi, brewery and banana and that was in lower obesity areas.  Wealthier areas had happier tweets and coastal areas had happier tweets as well.  Twitter in the future will be used for more  census related things.  
    I think this is a very interesting study.  The study does make sense  that the saddier states would have higher obesity rates and the happier states were wealthier and had lower obesity rates.  I’m not saying it makes sense to be mean I’m mostly pointing out that wealthier areas will generally have more positive  comments on twitter about vacations and such.  I can see that twitter will be helpful in the future for experiments and surveys.