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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Replying to @paulg
Paul, indeed I can confirm your thesis correct. There are a number of sentiment indicators I use that track this. The http://hedonometer.org is one and unless there are overt events the sine wave is positive on most weekends. Other indicators are even more pronounced.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @paulg
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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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @paulg
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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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @paulg
Paul, the AI/ML protocols I have developed can take in account, in real-time the ~70 sentiment and Affect indictors and “understand” the “greater world” basis some folks carry in dialogues. It also serves as a leading indictor for some personality types in how they will interact.
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Paul, finally we have been able to surface a Dewy Cycle from all of the sentiment indictors we use. In the case of Twitter the sine wave is trending down. The interesting thing is how distorted the current down wave has been, it will be interesting to see 20 years of data:pic.twitter.com/jwgA5A94aD
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