Modeling public mood and emotion: Twitter sentiment and socio-economic phenomena

Understand

Microblogging is a form of online communication by which users broadcast brief text updates, also known as tweets, to the public or a selected circle of contacts.

• A variegated mosaic of microblogging uses has emerged since the launch of Twitter in 2006: daily chatter, conversation, information sharing, and news commentary, among others.
• Regardless of their content and intended use, tweets often convey pertinent information about their author's mood status.
• As such, tweets can be regarded as temporally-authentic microscopic instantiations of public mood state.