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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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.
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, one artifact of my protocol is knowledge and insights one can draw. For example, I have advised startups not to announce anything on days that are in the -300 to -512 range, for we can correlate rather high daily noise to signal in any message they wish to communicate.
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