We don't like Wednesdays
BOFFINS HAVE BEEN analysing Twitter posts and, rather than going mad, have worked out that we don't like Wednesdays.
While the Boom Town Rats might have become famous on the assumption that we don't like Mondays, it turns out that most people posting on Twitter have a problem with Wednesdays.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Professors Christopher Danforth and Peter Dodds of Vermont University analysed words used in 2.4 million Internet blogs such as Twitter, giving them a score out of nine based on how positive or negative they were.
So words like "free", "fun", "rainbow" and "fluffy bunny" got you eight points, while words such as "betray", "cruel", "hatred" "suffocate" and "Craig David" all scored less than two.
Saturday and Sunday did quite well, but what was surprising was that Monday came out as the second happiest day of the week.
It seems that people are happy because they are telling stories about how wonderful the weekend was. By Wednesday, those feelings had subsided and we are all Nintendoed off. Friday we are in love, apparently.
Professor Danforth said that people's daily experience is reflected somewhat in what they're saying. Since people say a lot on Twitter it is a good way of measuring how people are feeling without having to ask them. µ
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hu ever is on orange and has twitter must be the only happy people on wednesdays, due to Orange wednesdays, i i ♥ wednesdays, not only due to the fact that it is "Orange wednesday" which means i get 2 take ma girl 2 the cinema n only pay 1/2 the price ;) but also due to the fact thursday is also ma day off work... so, i ♥ wednesdays. any one else agree with me and disagree on the article?
the boomtown rats didnt become famous on the assumption that we dont like mondays. The song was written about a massacre at a school in America and the reason given by the killer was that they didnt like mondays.
What if a post were to say "...no fun...". Would it still get 8 points for including the word "fun"?
Thank you for making me realize I'm officially "old".
When I figured out that your "hu ever" was actually "whoever" and not a typo, I threw up in my mouth. Or in your parlance "I thru up in mah mouth".
Not old, "educated"
What is wrong with Craig David. I haven't heard much about him recently but, am I missing something?
"Monday came out as the second happiest day of the week"?!? Bloody-hell man.
Maybe they are already retired, rich or maybe they always call sick on that day ;) (lol)
Isn't that how Sure Happy Its Thursday (S.H.I.T.) came about?