Pulse of the Nation: U.S. Mood Throughout the Day inferred from Twitter

[thesmartbrunette]

Literally watch florida.... - it's the most optimistic state I've ever seen. It can't get unhappy, I agree. Visiting there have been the best vacations of my life. :-)

[thesmartbrunette]

Lol NJ FTW:-) NJ's actually one of the happier east coasters... I totally agree with this map. New York is MISERABLE. Lol that's part of the culture-Complaining. Lol trust me. I'm in the suburbs. Haha. And Cali and Florida and some of the south is so happy:)

[EvanIsExcellence]

North Carolina is freaking bipolar, so true

[EvanIsExcellence]

North Carolina is freaking bipolar, so true

[charface1822]

Genius idea (:

[HoGraz]

That's insane how WV is so unhappy.

[Boogers32150]

N.M. stayed red the entire time.

..and, really I can't say I'm surprised?

[earthstrum]

that does it for me. i'm moving to the west coast

[eastportland]

And Florida can't get mad?

[toyzhaven]

@eastportland They're pretty much dead.

[iloveme2cute]

wow my state never got happy..kind of sucks

[Fancylock]

You Mad, Eastcoast?

[archarabia]

Another thing. Tweeting is like commenting on products you bought online or sending a comment to a company. Many people only do it to complain. If somethings's going really well, most people won't bother to mention it. But if there's bad or mad news, everyone wants to yell and share it.

[archarabia]

It looks like 10 poeple sent angry tweets out of WV, and then no one sent anything else until the study concluded. Maybe most people here don't tweet. I'm proud this research came out of my alma mater.

[DrumstepAudio]

Yes New York stayed red .. my favorite color !! .. Don't come fuck with us New Yorkers we'll bake ya' ! :D .. even though I live in New York, It's really not this bad .. Guess us New Yorkers need our true graffiti back ..

[r0bicus]

I like this it's really true for Tennessee, the only times people are angry is between 1-5 a.m. We happy people hit the hay around 10-12.

[AcemanJones]

Anybody want to explain how come this goes through two days?

[MrTorpedoDude]

Indiana is getting shitted on this whole video. haha. it's not once ever green :/ and that's true. it does fucking SUCK here.

[izzyluvsPINK]

Iowa's almost always red. GO figure.

[zachattack1942]

I live in Florida and I definitely agree with this map.

[AlfredPiedmonte]

Looks like everyone hates live in northern central US.

[mkworkman]

‎1:39 YouTube by amislove on July 13, 2010: Pulse of the Nation: U.S. Mood Throughout the Day inferred from Twitter

[unstoppablefriday]

California is always happy because we have pot.

[SuperILY123]

:( I wanted to see how happy/sad Alaska was. Guess none of us are on twitter so they just put a big blob over it.

[rapideyeproductions]

What an incredible study...

[bhksk8r]

That's amazing... I believe it.. Used to live in Las Vegas, a very negative place as far as business is concerned... But the kids that I grew up with were some of the coolest.. Kentucky's nice too, but lots of gossip here. I just want everyone to quit judging each other and enjoy life before it's gone!!

[Jurassicprince]

lol My home state (Wisconsin) seems to always be angry...

[db0ni]

What the Hell… I live in Florida, it is not that great.

[pedrocamposbr]

Se eu entendi bem, nestes dois dias de amostra, as pessoas apresentam bom humor nos períodos: (6:00 - 9:00) e (20:00 - 00:00), à noite dormem e maior parte do dia passam mal humoradas. O País tem pelo menos três fusos, o horário vale na Costa Leste, e a onda vai de Leste para Oeste. No Sul são mais felizes, e parece que a coisa vai bem na Costa Oeste. Bem, isso é o que dizem por aí no Twitter.

[joewtjjoewp1]

Question 1: the colors of the states means the happines. But wtf does the size of the states mean?

Question 2: where is alaska and hawai?

[archarabia]

@joewtjjoewp1 The size refers to how many tweets are coming out of the state. The more tweets coming out of it, the bigger it is, and vice versa. That's why some of the states swell/shrink over the time lapse. I don't know why Alaska and Hawaii aren't here. Sorry.

[AngelicRogue]

Lol Virginia's almost always pissed off. My state is so angry :(

[PiefaceclownPrdctns]

Of course the Northwest is consistently more happy than everywhere else, we're awesome

[seobro]

Florida is a happy place that is clean and green. On the other hand, those nasty newyorkers are red and angry.

[winkioexperiment]

Awesome how twitter can be such a good source of information! The social experiment Winkio.com aims at taking the pulse of the world pretty much in the same kind of way, although it will really make sense as the community grows

[alanalew]

Too bad the map does not show Hawaii, which rated highest in happiness for the whole country in this research. "Happiness" = saying generic "good words" in Twitter -- it is very coarse measurement - from what I heard on some podcast about this.

[CrtlAltDlt]

wow i wanna move to florida now XD

[IAMTEHSPY]

michiganians are always pissed off that they got robbed or shot

[SregorNadroj]

Wow, go West Virginia. The only state to stay red the WHOLE video.

[archarabia]

@SregorNadroj We have a 17% college education rate. Most of the people sending tweets are in those 17%, and they're angry they're stuck in redneck country.

[z0nt21]

Kalyfornia & Florida sure are on cocaine. :)

[Mackspot]

It seems California and Florida always they're happy.

[nix831]

north dakota never seems to be happy. ever.

[thatbrandondude]

louisiana is always pissed off. lmao

[bagassa]

it dont mean nothing. like homeboy said, what the hell are people sad or happy about, maybe something silly .. fun times anyhow haha

[banditkade]

what goes on in Delaware? Free blow jobs from 3pm-10pm?

[ButterOnMyBiscuit]

i dont know anyone who "tweets"

[manzha]

in night people sleep they don't tweet.. so your pulse go down in day it go up that is it ..

[ShidamProductions]

This is really the whole pulse of the 'nation'! Thats so dumb.

This is the pulse of the twitter 'nation'. which is a small percentage of the actual NATION.

I guess it may be interesting if you use twitter.

But for the people like me who don't use it,it looks like a ignorant assumption.

[MrFrosty56]

I think it's a representation of how crappy the lives of Twitter users are. Probably why they use twitter, so they can bitch about something no one should care about

[vicksburg0601]

I live in Vicksburg, Mississippi; I don't belong here. I am always finding negative people, it must be in the air.

[DeReCk120]

But then again mostly emo teenagers uses twitter so what can you expect?

[thegreenzea]

good to see that new york is happy...

[TheRobineggs]

florida and cali :) my homesssssss ive chosen weelllllll

[TheLastSpecter]

Some people are giving this study too much importance. This just tells the happiness of people that use Twitter. People that Twitter make up an extremely small percentage of the U.S. population and certain demographics of people are represented more than others.

[emelton07]

Lol. Arkansas is never happy. It's true. I live here. The conservatives are pissed off at people because they aren't exactly like them, and the liberals are pissed off at the conservatives because rednecks are all assholes.

[chriskirby3]

lulz florida is practically neutral the whole time

[lukem6champ6]

dam im movin to florida

[globaltrance86]

West Coast! :D

[deftox]

the midwest is fucking pissed

[IconListening]

SO SO TRUE. I LIVE IN LOS ANGELES IT IS AWESOME I ALWAYS TELL MY MOM I LOVE WHERE I LIVE ITs JUST AWESOME BEAUTIFUL WEATHER EVERY DAY

AND LOOK AT THE MIDDLE STATES AND EAST COAST FULL OF RED AND WHITE PEOPLE AND JUST ALWAYS UNHAPPY .

WEST IS THE BEST PEOPLE TRUST ME I LIVE HERE ITS AWESOME.

icon.

[thereallurker]

maybe it's just that people on twitter are less happy than most

[EZNKPD]

Lol louisiana is a shithole

[rtothemast]

The West is the best...Oh, and Florida is cool too!:)

[IconListening]

@rtothemast

SO SO TRUE.

[lvasaxman]

whats up with delaware?

just an island of happy :)

[SC93RFC1873]

mann south dakota is pretty depressed

[lvngdead]

LMFAO

Everyone is biploar.

[quenwolf]

Wow, my state stayed completely red almost the entire time. Glad to know I live with a bunch of pessimists.

[zimmyzimgir]

My state Louisiana and neighboring Mississippi are fucking FURIOUS the entire time.

[im4florida]

@zimmyzimgir lol woot, louisiana ftw

and plus, we have an oil spill on our hands thats why were upset!

[zimmyzimgir]

@im4florida Yeah, most likely this study was recently and people couldn't stop talking about those bastards at BP.

[dwalden74]

Ha! Big surprise that angry rednecks vote republican! ;)

[Boogers32150]

@dwalden74 I'm a democrat, but I don't

understand why anger is a factor in being

Republican? I always thought it was white,

male, uneducated, wealthy, old, or Christian.

but eh, what do I know.

[reap00004]

people were probably only happy during the morning cause "good" in "good morning" was taken as a happy thing lol

[SinaniPoke]

PEOPLE NEAR CANADA ARE NEVER HAPPY

[nameofthepen]

Who is reading all these "private" messages to know this?

[cfryant]

@nameofthepen These are messages on Twitter, a public message sharing service.

[nameofthepen]

@cfryant - lol, duh! What was I thinking? Of course.  I don't "twitter", so I forgot they are public broadcasts. Thanks. :D

[ChiefDen4]

New York never really got that happy : /

[laugurinn]

in their own words this is not very accurate. example: "i am not happy" it registered as happy. stupid. also cool. yet still stupid.

[MrIgottabomb]

Were always pissed off about how fucking hot and humid and rainy it is down here, but somehow we manage to stay green and yellow??WTF?!! Florida sucks dick, swallows and chokes on the jizz of weather.

[thedudeofoz]

Iowa is just fuckin pissed!!!

[crapacost]

i love how my home state is always green :)

[TheOriginalLonestar]

This is hardly an accurate indicator of mood in Louisiana,it must be scewed because no one here tweets; and even if it was accurate I'd blame it entirely on BP.

[Murdilizer]

California is the happiest state. : ) glad I live here...

[MrIgottabomb]

@Murdilizer psych, Look again, it florida, and florida sucks...

[ldccolts93]

What's the thorn in Indiana's ass? I don't notice too many pissed off people here!

[morrisocoolike]

why is florida so happy?!

[BlackSand219]

West coast rocks. Rednecks and liberals can all suck it.

[jpatton1989]

@BlackSand219 dude, the west coast is full of liberal douchebags. look at california

[BlackSand219]

@jpatton1989 Its true. But California doesnt count as a state anymore. Theyre kind of douchey.

[Boogers32150]

@jpatton1989 You do understand that liberal means

"open-minded or tolerant; characterized by generosity"?

Which would render your statement kind of Oxymoronic?

..if that's a word. I suppose.

[morrisocoolike]

haha yea! go cali!

[motorola99]

Red states are pissed off most of the time. Faux News fear and hate mongering seems to be working well.

[eastportland]

@motorola99 That, and traffic.

[comedysyrup]

YAY CALI NEVER WENT RED :D i little yellow though... but you'd think that since its so hot and humid in florida they'd be more pissed...

[21leftcenter]

looks like all those homos in california are getting lots of poop dick

[hdwblade]

Screw it. I'm moving to Florida. Then to Cali. AHNULD!

[cheemokinz06]

My state stayed red the entire time too!

[Khizzle007]

nobody likes you new mexico

[drewbols]

Wow, West Virginia's not doing too great...

[MottomiNewbie]

Is it just me, or does the graph show that VA is unhappy like 90% of the time? :/

[SirKaname]

@MottomiNewbie I live there, and trust me, we are.

[SaberTanker22]

I start a tweeter account just to comment about how i wish i lived in Florida there so happy dam lol .

[21leftcenter]

this is proof that louisiana is pissed at BP

[beauluga20]

nobody here in florida is happy

[mtb416]

Florida is not happy, they're senile! haha

[RsWeChanged]

IM MOVING TO FLORIDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[theusedlove14]

Lol @ Florida being so damn happy... :D

[ajbguitar123]

i only used this video 2 play snake on....

[MrDJCue]

Thumbs up if this video is a waste of time!

[centpushups]

holy crap America's wang is really happy

[freakybrowneyes7]

wisconsin is mad because no one here twitters, and the people who do are usually fat asses who are angry at world

[quenwolf]

@freakybrowneyes7 What about Madison? I hear that's a pretty hip little city.

[freakybrowneyes7]

@quenwolf yeah.... madison is nice... but outside of that the rest of the state is either drunk or has a stick up their ass.... and sometimes even both

[quenwolf]

@freakybrowneyes7 Lol, true. The same can be said of Detroit (except its not nice), Portland, and Seattle. Nobody cares about the state outside of those cities.

[freakybrowneyes7]

@quenwolf haha, i've been to detroit, but i've always wanted to visit seattle... but yeah nobody gives a shit about wisconsin except to make front of it.

[airbus001]

Chicago sucks donkey balls!!!

[gotitans999]

Unfortunately, what does the gray stand for? Why isn't the shape consistent and only the colors change? In other words, gray turns to a color...well what mood were they when they were gray...or did they just appear from thin air?

[iTzEvrywhere]

The fuck is Hawaii??? We would be greeeeeeen all day long. :D

[tictacklondikebar]

Oklahoma is unhappy mostly because its so hot during the ENTIRE day. florida is happy because of Lebron coming to heat

[1thing2say4u]

why is west virginia always pissed off?

[shadowblade145]

@1thing2say4u Not enough red necks,

[thedragonwilleatyou]

@1thing2say4u If you where in WV you would ask "What the Hell is every other state so happy about?"

[rq146]

this is neat, I never thought of Twitter as a research tool (I never really thought about twitter at all I suppose) but I'm glad to see it's being used for things like this. I'd like to see a version of this without the distorts though.

[g00oogle]

im moving fuck kansas

[bouray44]

@g00oogle heard that! this place sucks!!!

[vinn77]

wow the states in red for the most part have lower unemployment rates then the ones that are green, i guess they were to busy at work to tweet about being happy they have jobs

[Estoperole]

i love how california gets sad when they have to go to work

[hobojoe1234]

lmao the two fattest states( i mean the state with most fat asses) im looking at u mississippi! stayed pretty mad... i wonder lol. and california rules!

[BasicallyAwesomeful]

I think florida is happy because people go on vacation there a lot, so they tweet "ZOMG, BEACH!! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!" or something like that while they are there.... ya.

[eatpineapples1]

california sucks

[XXXREDROOMXXX]

Yay, lets follow the green to the places with the worst hit economies in the US.

[wisapolito]

Yay AZ!



[oscarman422]

lol if you notice states start getting happier towards about midnight and 1, lol time to party XD

[TheKidpojo]

Florida is always happy! Is it the weather or what?

[thewhitebrazilian]

go florida! :P lol and damn new yorkers are fucking furious haha

[BadPojo]

Way to go Montana, way to go.

[Cleverstar8]

Whats up with West Virginia and Iowa. Those two states are always red. Also, New Jersey is the moodiest state ever. One minute its red and the next its green. It must be the Italians :) :)

[Kevin323gaw]

HAHA FAGS WHERE ALWAYS HAPPY :)

[BryanDil]

damn Florida is happy XD california #FTW

[bubbajimmy8]

of course fucking california is , we in maryland get jack shit

[briansmobile1]

California, Florida, and Delaware are the happiest states.... Or at least the least number of whiners on Twitter.

[EntranceAvailable]

Delaware is an odd one. Must be because everyone leaves them alone.

[briansmobile1]

@EntranceAvailable NOW I gotta go there and investigate. They do have a coastline, so maybe the whole beaches and bikinis theory is valid. Who knows?

[iBorderBum]

what about HAWAII !!??

[ManiacalBoombox]

Yay Kansas! I'm surrounded by pissed off rednecks!

[djathens2]

Now show it by major metropolitan area... LA & SF metro would be ha-uge.

[JRayChannel]

The east coast/mid west has less egomaniac d-bags that feel the need to keep the entire planet informed of their current mood.

[kaykaylynn91]

@JRayChannel

You must be fucking dumb as shit. There is no one on earth with bigger egos than those assholes on the East Coast.

[blueblutterfly01]

Louisiana is never happy?

[bjiernnkeilfaenrd]

i can play snake

[flyinggoomba1]

@bjiernnkeilfaenrd me too lol it's fucking sick

[OhhShnits2]

stupid much

[Slaught1004]

Florida!!!

i wanna move to florida

[bmorestndup]

Hawaii is always green..im moving back lol

[TheOneAndOnlyRAM]

californias so happy cuz of all that ganja. montana, ehhh kinda pissed

[astrader16]

This is absolutely retarded. A great artistic expression, but not scientific in any way. Some states (i.e. Mississippi) do not changes at all throughout the entire day, while surrounding states are constantly changing.

[wildchat]

Funny how the midwest doesn't give a shit about Twitter LOL

[1XxENGxX1]

of corse my state is the only one that stayed red the hole time this maks me so MADDDDDDDD

[FollowTheSunDown]

@1XxENGxX1 Lol

[nayajhen]

@1XxENGxX1 HAHA, how appropriate.

[Khizzle007]

@1XxENGxX1 there were two that stayed red the whole time

[guinness454]

I wonder what life would be like if the entire country could stay green all the time?

[tecknotroniks]

Apparently:

#1: People in Montana don't Tweet.

#2: People in Montana who Tweet are never happy. Not only are they not happy, they are downright ticked off.

[swaggababii14]

i dont think this is real cause what about the pepole that are too happy for twitter

[TKMSeznam12]

According to this, everyone on the east coast is pissed all day.

[lizbeth569]

1:04-1:13 preety

[flowerpotent]

California never went red.

[K1495]

west coast is always happeh! :D

[TehSmellulare]

Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe the people who use Twitter are the ones who are most frequently unhappy?

[TehSmellulare]

My state (Wisconsin) is never green. =(

... well, at least we aren't West Virginia, always red. lol

[cmdgdaniel]

People in Louisiana and Mississippi are gonna be pissed for a while...

[YouSoldMe]

why is nebraska so pissed all the time....its not like anything happens there

[zehnjg]

@YouSoldMe

They're pissed because they're in Nebraska.