Twitter is both nicer and smarter on the weekends. It's like going back in time. Hypothesis: the sort of people who start and join Twitter mobs use Twitter mainly to procrastinate at work.
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That's very interesting. I'd love to see a graph with just 7 points representing the average for each day.
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Paul, great question. I built a protocol that presents +512 to -512 on any given day. This is a meta protocol that is elicited from sources like the Hednometer. With Hednometer this is a ~6 month, we see the red and pink points (weekend) showing mass events that draw high Affect:pic.twitter.com/YTXcb70KwT
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Paul, the interesting artifact to the “weekend effect” is you can track it across many sites. On Quora where I have been a top writer for a few years, I built an indictor that shows word choices, Affect and other aspects are decidedly more positive on the weekends.
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Paul, over the few decades in tracking sentiment and in particular Affect one can draw interesting conclusions about how mobs form and dissipate and by studying word choices there are some theories on intent. We can also conclude much in demographics and age cohorts.
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