Effect of climate and seasonality on depressed mood among twitter users

Everything in the world has every effect, though on different people, is one possible interpretation of the meaning of this study: “Effect of climate and seasonality on depressed mood among twitter users,” Wei Yang, Lan Mu [pictured here], and Ye Shen, Applied Geography, Volume 63, September 2015, Pages 184–191. (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing […]

Disruptive technology: Twitter and marital breakups, maybe

If you enjoy fun, conceivably-partly-true tales about disruptive technologies (as some people do — see, for example, Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen‘s tidy tales of disruption), then pay heed to the scholarly studies from Russell B. Clayton. Clayton, at the University of Missouri-Columbia, has a new study about Twitter and marital breakups: “The Third Wheel: The Impact of Twitter Use on […]

Counting curses (on Twitter, in English)

Words can be tallied. Words were. This study gives details: “Cursing in English on Twitter,” Wenbo Wang, Lu Chen, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan [pictured here], and Amit P. Sheth, paper presented at CSCW’14 , February 15-19 2014, Baltimore, MD, USA. The authors, at Wright State University, explain: “In this paper, we examine the characteristics of cursing activity […]

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