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[–] Boukert 5 points (+5|-0)

"twitter study"

[–] smallpond [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Of course, Twitter users are not a representative sample of all people--just who are the "twitter-afflicted" (as Adam Gopnik wrote in a recent issue of the New Yorker) who pick up their phone to tweet from a park? Still, Twitter users are a broad demographic, earlier research shows, and this approach to near-real-time remote sensing via Twitter posts--not based on self-reporting--gives a new window for scientists onto the shifting moods of very large groups.

Well, it is what it is. It's a complex subject and I acknowledge one could pick all sorts of holes in it if you wanted to.