Is Happiness Contagious Online? A Case of Twitter and the 2010 Winter Olympics (paper presented at HICSS 2011)
by Anatoliy Gruzd on Jan 07, 2011
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Gruzd, A., Doiron, S., Mai, P. (2011). Is Happiness Contagious Online? A Case of Twitter and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS...
Gruzd, A., Doiron, S., Mai, P. (2011). Is Happiness Contagious Online? A Case of Twitter and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 4-7, Kauai, HI, USA. Available at http://bit.ly/eer95o
*** Abstract ***
Is happiness contagious online? To answer this
question, this paper investigates the posting behavior
of users on Twitter.com, a popular online service for
sharing short messages. Specifically, we use
automated sentiment analysis to study a large sample
of over 46,000 Twitter messages that reference the
2010 Winter Olympics. We determined that there are
more positive messages than negative, and that
positive messages are 3 times more likely to be
forwarded than negative messages. However, we were
not able to confirm with a reliable degree of certainty
that the emotional context of messages is directly
related to the user’s position in the Twitter network. It
is likely that there are other factors involved as well.
For example, we found that negative users were more
prolific posters than positive users, suggesting their
more argumentative and passionate nature. This paper
concludes with some implications for the Twitter
community and a description of our follow-up study.
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