Are you ever wondering how the world is doing when you wake up in the morning? Now you can by looking at your Twitter Mood Light–you’ll know whether the world is feeling particularly angry, happy, ...

It seems like everyone’s in a “Big Mood” on Twitter these days. But what kind of mood does that mean, and where did the phrase come from? Here’s a closer look at the latest trendy way of captioning ...

There’s a lot you can read about on Twitter — including, it now appears, the patterns of human moods. After analyzing two years’ worth of tweets by 2.4 million people around the world, researchers at ...

— -- We tweet what we feel. An innovative study that used Twitter streams from 2.4 million people around the globe to take their emotional temperature found that people start the day in a good ...

More than 65 million brief Twitter messages pass through cyberspace per day. Researchers from Northeastern and Harvard universities have come up to visually represent the mood of the nation based on ...

Riders have long been able to turn to the MBTA’s Twitter account and online alerts to get updates and find out what’s happening around the transit system. But now, there’s more available than just ...

Every tweet, no matter how trivial, reveals the writer’s mood, through word choice–It can be as obvious as “happy” or as subtle as “diamond.” Now imagine if you could take that knowledge, scale it up ...

America, are you happy? The emotional words contained in hundreds of millions of messages posted to the Twitter website may hold the answer. Computer scientist Alan Mislove at Northeastern University ...

Researchers from Harvard and Northeastern monitored three years of tweets to gauge how the mood of the country changes on a minute by minute basis. Turns out, people are happiest in the early morning ...