![]() In the real world, it's well-known that people tend to associate with others who are like them, whether that means they group themselves by age, race, or even weight. There are lots of links between happy people, and lots of links between people who are all unhappy, with very little back-and-forth between those who are happy and those who are not. Twitter 'friends'-those who follow each other and send each other messages through the service- tend to be of similar levels of happiness.The researchers say Twitter may even be happier than it appears, since the database of words they use to guage mood contains significantly more negative words than positive ones. That's surprising in itself, especially given recent research questioning whether another social network, facebook, actually makes people sad. Twitter is a 'moderately happy' place.Here's what they found about the happiness of those who tweet at least once a day: They analyzed the emotional content of the tweets by concentrating on words that psychologists have agreed generally indicate either a happy or unhappy state of mind. Johan Bollen, of the University of Indiana, together with Bruno Goncalves, Guangchen Ruan, and Huina Mao, tracked 102,000 Twitter users over six months, analyzing a total of 129 million tweets. Twitter is a happier place than you might expect.
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