Computer program uses Twitter to 'map mood of nation'

[avaistheone1]

Source: BBC News

British scientists have developed a computer program they say can map the mood of the nation using Twitter.

Named Emotive, it works by accessing the emotional content of postings on the social networking site.

The team, from Loughborough University, say it can scan up to 2,000 tweets a second and rate them for expressions of one of eight human emotions.

They claim Emotive could help calm civil unrest and identify early threats to public safety.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24001692

[Jesus Malverde]

1. There is likely an element of this in the PRISM program or programs like it.

PRISM is said to make up a substantial part of the PDB,

[enlightenment]

2. No, it can map the mood of

twitter users - and not very well, since it uses word recognition to rate emotion. Unless they are tracking context of the key words, they've got no clue if the tweet is expressing "disgust" over a horrible crime or "disgust" because the crowd around the crime scene prevented the tweeter from reaching their destination in a timely fashion.

[Earth_First]

8. I'm leaning towards this...

There is slang with dual connotations that would make this nearly impossible to decipher.

[djean111]

3. Don't people buy twitter accounts and/or pay for tweets in order to stir up interest in things?

[Owl]

4. Sometimes I think that other than DU, perhaps it's nearing time to turn off and tune out....

[silvershadow]

7. No kidding. nt

[Poll_Blind]

9. Not only that, but that the concept to is as revolutionary as the cyberpunk movement that...

...preceded the move into the Digital Age.

You and anyone else out there reading. Please think about this, if only for a moment.

PB

[hobbit709]

5. Only the mood of twits.

[iamthebandfanman]

6. so horny

angry/sad and hungry ?


just my stab in the dark at it :p

[Helen Borg]

10. Oh, now they just need to feed it

to a terror color bar indicator and it will be all automated! When it reaches dark red, London will go automatically on lockdown to prevent riots.