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July 20, 2010
 

The mood of public tweets

As a proof-of-concept we've1 been studying the mood2 of all of the public tweets. While there are many services that will allow you to study the mood of your own tweets (and also an neat little DIY project to show you the global average of twitter), much less effort has gone into studying how the mood breaks down according to geography. Below, I show a brand new video displaying the pulsating 24-hour twitter mood cycle of the United States (I'll explain just what you're looking at, in the following).

via iq.harvard.edu

This is a wonderful piece of work, posted on the Complexity and Social Networks Blog, showing an analysis of how happy the US is over a day. There's something about the swelling angry red that is very evocative of the grumpy unhappiness, and the fat bulges of happy green in California and Florida demonstrating their peaceful contentment.

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September 1, 2009
 

My personal top tech Twitterers... or not

In response to a conversation I was involved in about "top twitterers", I thought I'd go through the list of people I follow in Twitter and see if I could make a top ten list of folks to follow for the kind of tech bits I'm interested in.

Turns out I couldn't make it past five. Thinking about it, I realise I still get my dose of tech stuff more reliably from places like Hacker News and Slashdot.

In case you're interested, the five I came up with:
  • @timoreilly — not just because he's my boss, but Tim does on Twitter what he's always done. Curates and spreads knowledge
  • @migueldeicaza — funny, iconoclastic and I've got a soft spot for whatever he's doing
  • @KathySierra — makes me look at the world in a different way, and sustains a drip feed of user-centeredness into my thinking
  • @timbray — follows his tech passions deeply and throws out fun conjectures
  • @joshu — in turns grumpy and funny, likes to make his point with code
There's a pretty good argument that if you're following @timoreilly you're already saving yourself the effort of sorting through about 500 other people's Twitter output anyway. Ironically, that's a service I'd pay for.

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